For almost a decade, John Luksic used a Bitcoin exchange to invest money in cryptocurrencies, trying to build a nest egg while caring for his parents in Saginaw, Michigan.
Then just days after Christmas, nearly $90,000 worth of Bitcoin was emptied from the 60-year-old's account by cybercrooks, he says.
Knowing where your money has guaranteed protection and where it doesn't is complicated in today's digital age, a time when Americans keep savings and investments in many places beyond just banks and pension funds.
Not to change the topic here:
Young software designer finds money brings its own concerns | The Seattle Times
Audrey Bastian seems to have it all. The 28-year-old recently started a well-paying high-tech job she loves and scored a just-built studio apartment that she rents at the crux of cool, the Pike/Pine corridor. As the Mad Magazine character might advise, "What, me worry?"
The anxiety about money began when she started to save some as a UX designer for a health data company in Seattle. Bastian describes her job as "designing applications that make a product easy for a person to use." She earns $106,700 a year – above the $89,000 median household income for King County but below most estimates for the average tech worker in Seattle.
Personal finance: How to start investing with a little money
No longer required to purchase stocks in 100 share bunches, investors are now able to purchase as little as one share. And most firms will allow people to open a brokerage account with a zero balance and a promise to add $50 a month, or more.
That means most people have the wherewithal to invest, if only a little. Yet many individuals I meet believe they don't have enough money to invest outside their 401(k). They believe that putting together a $1,000 portfolio is beyond reach.
Money for Lamoille rail trail is good news for businesses along route - VTDigger
Gov. Phil Scott’s news that he hopes to dedicate more than $2.8 million in state money to finishing the 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail on a former rail bed in northern Vermont was welcome news to Cindy Locke, the executive director of the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers, which maintains the trail.
The governor said the state’s share would enable the use of $11.3 million in federal transportation funds, most of it to build bridges on the trail, which is popular with bicyclists, pedestrians, skiers and snow machine users.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Miss Manners: The rule about when you can keep found money
DEAR MISS MANNERS: On our daily dawn walk, my friend and I found $4 folded on the ground. No one was around. I said, “Oh! Coffee money!”
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GENTLE READER: The only fault here was innocence. Miss Manners finds your friend’s action sweet, but naive. The reality is that you are only leaving it for the next passerby.
She therefore declares that unidentifiable cash under $100 is fair game. Unmarked suitcases with stacks of bills inside must, however, be turned in to the authorities.
These are the pros and cons of putting your money together once married
Politics Report: It's Money Time! - Voice of San Diego
We’ve got cash-on-hand totals for the candidates in local races. Issa isn’t backing down. And SANDAG’s Friday meeting was tense, if you can believe it.
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Normally local campaigns release results every six months. There's a January through June reporting period, and a July through December period.
There are also other deadlines, though, that come up before an actual election. And this year, the primary election is in March, which means we got the first of those before we got the results of the last six-month period.
How newlyweds are spending registry gift money after wedding season
For an idea of how far newlyweds are going these days with their wedding gift requests, here are eight of the most unique, creative and resourceful ways couples are changing up the registry process.
In 2011, the average honeymoon cost $4,466, according to wedding website The Knot. But, by 2017, the average honeymoon cost had risen to $5,432 .
As the price to travel post-wedding continues to climb, couples have taken to asking for wedding gifts in the form of honeymoon contributions rather than traditional presents.
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The U.S. government says it's on high alert for cyberattacks from foreign countries this election year. But private… https://t.co/5ZLORUzElO NPR Fri Jan 24 01:32:03 +0000 2020
A Seattle-area district is the first in the country to let residents vote by smartphone in a local election. Offici… https://t.co/CXmp71juh5 NPR Wed Jan 22 22:38:05 +0000 2020
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