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The fallout continues from Wells Fargo’s settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over the bank’s fake account scandal. Last September, federal regulators announced that Wells Fargo employees created upwards of 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customer approval.

Last fall, Wells Fargo admitted it had created over 2 million phony accounts as a result of an incentives program that rewarded employees who increased their sales numbers. Some employees who tried to report these wrong activities were retaliated against and fired.

I previously wrote a series of blogs addressing issues with student loan debt.  As previously mentioned, student loan debt has now surpassed a trillion dollars in this country.  Now the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a lawsuit against one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, Navient.  In the suit

In my June 8, 2016 blog, I talked a bit about the connection between Social Security (SSA) disability benefits and gun control, essentially that if a person is drawing SSA disability benefits for a mental health issue, among other things, it will pop up on the background check and those individuals may be legally proh

Seventy-five percent of consumers said debt collectors ignored their requests to stop calling, according to a survey released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which detailed “troubling” practices in the multi billi

The cost of health care is a major concern for nearly all Americans and there is no shortage of health care related news coverage recently. Understandably, there are lots of questions and forecasts about what might be about to happen.

Recent news reports indicate there are eight men in the world who hold the same amount of money as half of the world.  The organization Oxfam reports that in the U.S. 1% of the population controls 42% of the wealth.  Some notable names included in this group are:

Okay. So here we are. Another new year and many of us hear all the noise in our minds about what it's going to take to make this year the most successful year ever!

Feld Entertainment, who has owned Ringling Brothers circus for the last 50 years, is closing the famed circus after more than 100 years of existence. The company stated that declining ticket sales and the high cost of operating a circus of it size led to the decision.

There’s an old saying that most people have heard before: “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”  But what does that phrase mean?  Simply put, what’s fair for one person should be fair for the other.