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Buying a car should be less confusing. The FTC can help.
When buying a car, it’s easy to wind up spending thousands more than you intended, especially if you’re at a dealership with tricks up its sleeve. But thanks to a new proposal from the Federal Trade Comission, buying a car may be about to get a lot easier.
Crypto has gone mainstream. But where are the watchdogs?
What’s wrong with buy now, pay later? The risks of the newest tool to pull you into debt
Buy now, pay later apps give consumers the flexibility of paying for purchases in installments, but that convenience comes at a cost. Besides being unregulated and full of fine print, these companies have one ultimate goal: get you to buy more stuff, and go into debt to do it.
States are subsidizing cryptocurrency. That’s a bad idea.
Hoping to prop up their power markets, some states are looking to lure the next generation of energy hogs.
New study highlights the trouble with auto loans
Consumer Reports' new analysis of over 800,000 auto loans might make you rethink getting a car loan through a dealership. And it should make us all ask: is a transportation system that requires people take on so much debt really that functional?