What to do: Research current prices with a quick online search or by reviewing your most recent credit card statement. Only use those latest figures when estimating expenses in the coming months. And remember, it never hurts to overestimate your expenses a bit. Then, make the necessary cuts....
The charges increase the total cost of many goods and services including concert tickets, hotel rooms, gym memberships, cable subscriptions and utility bills. But the fees have become widely unpopular among American consumers, with arecent studyshowing that nearly nine in 10 general election voters ...
Leadership pulleda pair of surveillance law bills from the floorin December amid internal GOP divisions. In February, a spokesperson for the speakersaidthe House would consider FISA reform “at a later date” to allow for more time to reach consensus on a path forward. A bill introduced by G...
lead to increased emigration. By law, the president must tell Congress each year of the administration's intention to renew or deny MFN status benefits to a communist country. Congress has sixty days to overturn the decision and would then need a two-thirds majority to override a presidential...
Some of the most powerful politicians in Washington are calling for a change in one of the fundamental ways that Congress does business. Members of Congress have allotted over $16.5 billion in 2010 towards earmarks, provisions that lawmakers insert i...
A handful of bills currently in the halls of Congress might finally bring long-awaited regulatory clarity for Bitcoin and other cryptos. The crypto community has had a rough few years. With major collapses like Samuel Bankman-Fried’s FTX and Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs, the US Securities and...
money on the islands and printed bills with the word "Hawaii" stamped across them. By October 1944, the U.S. government deemed the threat to have passed and took the bills out of circulation or used them in other islands in the Pacific. You may also like: How Halloween has changed in...
In recent months, the Bank of Canada repeatedly cited the craziness in the Canadian housing market which formed a historic spike as a result of the Bank of Canada’s no-holds-barred asset purchases and interest rate repression. So the BoC started tapering its asset purchases last Octob...
Oklahoma, for example, passed several bills in recent weeks, including one that goes into effect this summermaking it a felony to perform an abortion.Like many anti-abortion bills passed in GOP-led states this year, it does not have exceptions for rape or incest, only to save the life of...
Carol M. Highsmith // Library of Congress Wigwam Village Motel #6 (Holbrook, Arizona) Tired motorists can sleep off a long day on the road at the historicWigwam Village Motel #6(there are five previous versions across the U.S.). Chester E. Lewis, charmed by wigwam villages he'd seen ...