Consumer Affairs
- Jun- 2023 -8 JuneMarket
A family earning $75,000 can afford fewer than 25% of homes for sale. Five years ago, they could afford 50%.
American households earning the median wage are seeing the pool of homes they can afford shrink, according to a new…
Read More » - 6 JuneMarket
Apple CEO Tim Cook has not answered the $1 billion question about his Vision Pro VR headset
Thanks a lot, but no thanks. Thanks for the 10,000 steps a day and FaceTime,Thanks for the darling iPhone that’s…
Read More » - 6 JuneMarket
Want to earn 5% on your cash? Post debt-ceiling deal, money-market funds deserve your attention
Money-market funds own around 15% of the Treasury-bill market, according to an estimate from Goldman Sachs. Money-market funds have been…
Read More » - 6 JuneMarket
Is Apple’s Vision Pro VR headset worth $3,499? Read this before shelling out.
Apple Inc. already has an iPhone for your pocket, as well as a watch for your wrist.On Monday, the tech…
Read More » - 6 JuneMarket
‘Dying is not a failure.’ Why—and how—to prepare for death.
After several decades of working in the healthcare industry, Michael Doring Connelly saw how the the insurance industry and the…
Read More » - 5 JuneMarket
Apple announces you’ll no longer need to say ‘Hey, Siri’ to get the virtual assistant’s help
The iPhone’s pioneering digital assistant, Siri, developed by Stanford University research offshoot SRI International and acquired by Apple in 2010,…
Read More » - 5 JuneMarket
Former YouTube CEO joins Giving Pledge, promises to give away most of her $780 million fortune
The former chief executive of YouTube and the co-founder of Zerodha, India’s biggest discount stock-trading platform, have joined the ranks…
Read More » - 5 JuneMarket
‘I’m concerned my friends will think I’m cheap’: I used to give friends’ kids $100 gift cards, but I left my job in tech. Is $25 an insult?
Dear Quentin, I am 52, and live alone without other income. For the past 15 years, I earned a large…
Read More » - 4 JuneMarket
ChatGPT acts like a devious coworker: ‘It doesn’t own mistakes, but it admits them when you point them out’
Roni Rosenfeld said he would never dream of using ChatGPT at work, but he understands how it could be tempting,…
Read More » - 4 JuneMarket
How many working Americans need food stamps? The answer may surprise you.
The debt-ceiling deal struck by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend contains many compromises for…
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