Money and Computing
New Overdraft Rules, Credit Card Rules and Home Mortgage Public Hearings
If you do not opt in (agree), beginning August 15, 2010, your bank's standard overdraft practices won't apply to your everyday debit card and ATM transactions. These transactions typically will be declined when you don't have enough money in your account, but you will not be charged overdraft fees. more »
The Volcker Rule: Proposals to Limit "Speculative" Proprietary Trading by Banks
The bills would limit the ability of commercial banking institutions and their affiliated companies and subsidiaries to engage in trading unrelated to customer needs and investing in and sponsoring hedge funds or private equity funds. Such an approach has been referred to as the "Volcker Rule" more »
Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty...
The Communist regime of Mao Zedong banned the use of cosmetics in the 1970s, and visitors to China struggled to tell men from women. Today China is the world’s fourth largest beauty market, with most leading Western brands sold as skin lighteners. more »
Downsized by Corporate America; Frustrations of a Recipe Cook
It’s not that I use a recipe for every meal these days, nor do I shop all at once on a Saturday: I’m no longer that hidebound. But when I do cook from a recipe, I expect it to work, and when corporate America downsizes a standard canned or bottled or boxed product without calling attention to the change, it really throws me. I doubt that I am alone. more »
