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'A made-up referendum might make people feel better for five minutes, but my job is to put together a plan that lasts five years.'
So while online statements are fine for retrieving specific information--say, last week's bar tab--internalizing broader spending habits is a different story. "The reality of what you're spending isn't nearly as strong," says Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor at American University who studies the impact of...
In other words, they use the Web to make statements more comprehendible, not less. That's an approach we'll probably see more banks pursue, says Mark Schwanhausser, an analyst at Javelin Strategy & Research. "Financial institutions are putting a lot of emphasis on paperless," he says, "and now they have...
Turns out that bus travel, at least in the Northeast and Midwest, has become a hip, and hiply budget-conscious, mode of transport. Book early enough on some of the sleek new lines, and you can travel from city to city for as little as $1. And forget the images...
On a recent Friday afternoon, my partner and I lined up on 34th Street in Manhattan and took a BoltBus to Philadelphia for date night. The bus left on time and was packed with people hunched over their netbooks and PDAs. Even the one bit of trash I saw was...