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CFPB consumer complaints soar as coronavirus outbreak continues

Americans filed a record number of complaints with the Office of Consumer Financial Protection in March, when the coronavirus pandemic began flooding hospitals and raising unemployment rates. Every month since then, consumer complaint numbers have reached record levels set the previous month, according to a report Friday by consumer advocacy …

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The hidden risk in your S&P 500 index fund

How much of your retirement savings are you currently gambling with the fortune of just six companies? If you have them on an S&P 500 SPX, -0.14% Stock index fund, the answer is: about a quarter. That’s what the so-called “FANMAG” —Facebook FB, -0.70%, Apple AAPL, -0.46%, Netflix NFLX, -7.44%, …

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USA Today says Peter Navarro’s op-ed criticizing Anthony Fauci was “misleading” and did not meet “fact-check standards”

Just as the war of words between Anthony Fauci and the Trump administration seemed poised to come to a stop, things suddenly took another nasty turn. The fractured relationship between President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades and …

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