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Who was the big winner of this year's expanded Black Friday money haul? Macy's, Target, J.C. Penny? How about the U.S. economy, Walmart (despite protests), or even Bitcoin as it goes mainstream? What about consumers who ...

  Caribbean and Central American havens are often thought to be less rigorous in their observance of banking and tax laws than European nations like Switzerland. Of course, Swiss banking has experienced a sea change sin...

The MOOC market (Massive Open Online Courses) has exploded. This month Coursera landed another $20M in funding, bringing their total investment to $63M (even more than edX's original $60M funding by MIT and Harvard)....

Boxing has rules. So do laws, even tax laws. Yet famed Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao can cry foul. As he tries to work out a tax dispute, the world-champion boxer and icon of the Philippines had accounts in two banks f...

When we last departed the case of In re Huber, a bankruptcy proceeding in Washington state, the Court had quite predictably applied Bankruptcy Code Section 548(e) to slice through an Alaska Asset Protection Trust like so...

Back in analog eras, even the most powerful people had a tough time starting their own currency. It would have taken a fair bit of wealth to begin with, because most legal tenders were tied to something real, like gold o...

The Wall Street party seems unstoppable. The S&P500 (NYSE:SPY) and the Dow Jones Industrials (NYSE:DIA) reach one new high after another; NASDAQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) is racing towards the old pre-dot.com crash levels; and a numb...

Personal money management startup Money Dashboard has received a $4 million investment led by Calculus Capital, a specialist in creating and managing private equity funds for individuals.

Imagine you are an energetic young web developer trying to launch your business in developing economy that's off the beaten path for startups. You figure out early that to earn the best rates, you need to target customer...