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FICO Plans Big Shift In Credit-Score Calculations, Potentially Boosting Millions of Borrowers (#GotBitcoin?)
Consumers with a low FICO could get a higher UltraFICO, a new score that factors in bank-account activity as well as loan payments. FICO Plans Big Shift In Credit-Score Calculations, Potentially Boosting Millions of Borrowers Credit scores for decades have been based mostly on borrowers’ payment histories. That is about to…
SpotCrime.com Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc
SpotCrime.com is a Baltimore-based company founded in October 2007 and privately owned by ReportSee, Inc. SpotCrime.com Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc It provides nationwide crime information about arrests, arsons, assaults, burglaries, robberies, shootings, thefts and vandalisms, on a Google map. SpotCrime will…
Banks’ Golden Deposits Are Heading Out The Door (#GotBitcoin)
After years of rate increases from the Federal Reserve, customers are pulling money out of accounts that don’t earn interest and putting it into higher-yielding alternatives. Banks’ Golden Deposits Are Heading Out The Door (#GotBitcoin) There’s less free money to go around for banks. Related: Banks Lose Hundreds Of Billions…
A Billionaire Pledges To Fight High Drug Prices, And The Industry Is Rattled (#GotBitcoin?)
Ex-energy trader John Arnold has put $100 million behind efforts to curb prices. A Billionaire Pledges To Fight High Drug Prices, And The Industry Is Rattled Billionaire John D. Arnold is spending a chunk of his fortune to campaign against America’s high drug prices. The drug industry is spending a chunk…
Spy Gadgets For Grow Facilities / Weed Dispensaries (#GotBitcoin)
Now legal in several states, medical marijuana dispensaries represent a rapidly expanding industry. Spy Gadgets For Grow Facilities / Weed Dispensaries (#GotBitcoin) Now legal in several states, medical marijuana dispensaries represent a rapidly expanding industry. Spy Gadgets For Grow Facilities / Weed Dispensaries Depending on the location and size of the…
Foreign Buying of U.S. Treasurys Softens, Unsettling Financial Markets (#GotBitcoin)
Investor pullback has fueled a bond selloff and shaken a nine-year-long rally in stocks. Foreign Buying of U.S. Treasurys Softens, Unsettling Financial Markets (#GotBitcoin) Overseas investors, traders and central bankers are buying fewer Treasurys, a potential turning point for a $15 trillion market at the center of global finance and…
The High Financial Price of Our Short Attention Spans (#GotBitcoin?)
Information overload is giving us little time to focus on any of it—and leading us to make bad choices about our money. The High Financial Price of Our Short Attention Spans Digital devices are potentially damaging your wallet—but not in the way you might think. Smartphones and other gadgets allow us…
Lenders Share Their Underwriting Secrets With Credit Karma (#GotBitcoin?)
Credit-card and personal-loan issuers hope the move will bring new customers amid signs of consumer-debt slowdown. Lenders Share Their Underwriting Secrets With Credit Karma Some of the biggest U.S. lenders, eager to bring in more borrowers and extend a yearslong expansion in consumer credit, are handing over the keys to their…
Hospitals Provide Patients With Kale And Spinach Along With Their Prescriptions (#GotBitcoin?)
Much of the produce grown at the farm atop Eskenazi Health’s flagship hospital in Indianapolis goes to patients. Take Two Aspirin—And A Serving of Kale Wielding food as medicine, hospitals are focusing on nutrition, sending patients home with prescriptions as well as bags of good food. Hospitals Provide Patients With Kale…
Can Bitcoin Become a Dominant (Reserve) Currency?
Proponents says there’s a consumer need for an alternative currency, while detractors say cryptocurrencies will remain in the hands of mostly speculators. Can Bitcoin Become a Dominant (Reserve) Currency? Bitcoin turns 10 at the end of the month. And over the past decade, there has been no shortage of headlines about…
The Key To Being Safer Online Is Actually A Key (#GotBitcoin?)
The best way to protect yourself against hackers and phishers is to turn on two-factor authentication—then get a YubiKey or Google Titan Key. The Key To Being Safer Online Is Actually A Key Google, Yubico and others offer security keys for different devices and ports, but they all work basically the…
New Spy Service Shows You Unsecured Webcams And Baby-Cams, Etc. (#GotBitcoin?)
Shodan has made it even easier for our inner voyeur to spy upon the open webcams of homes across the world -- but are the ramifications more pronounced than idle surveillance? New Spy Service Shows You Unsecured Webcams And Baby-Cams, Etc. Launched in 2013, Shodan is a search engine used to…