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Karl Marx’s visage has been recreated in stone all over the nations of Eastern Europe, where his political and economic philosophy held sway for most of the 20th century. A massive sculpture of his face that still stands in Chemnitz, Germany, has made its way onto the front of a MasterCard issued by Sparkasse bank,

Do you remember when Google was just a search engine? That was years ago… eons ago if you think in Internet time. Today Google let’s us call grandma on the phone (Android),  share videos of the kids’ birthday parties with her  (YouTube), share pictures of the little cuties with her too (Picasa), navigate our way

Good news, social gamers! Thanks to a partnership between American Express and Zynga you can now earn fake money to spend in your virtual world by spending real money in the real world! American Express’ Serve reloadable prepaid card now integrates with Zynga’s FarmVille, offering something called Farm Cash as a reward to Serve users

The entire credit scoring system hinges upon lenders reporting information on their borrowers to the credit bureaus. But consumers may be happy to know that there are limits to what a a lender can and cannot tell Equifax, Experian or TransUnion. While lenders typically report information regarding an account’s status, its current balance and accompanying

ProPublica reports that, as millions of federal student loans migrate to new non-profit servicers, many students have experienced disruptions in their loan payments. Some have seen their payments go up without explanation, hurting their monthly budget, while other have seen their payments drop, leaving them on the hook for higher interest payments down the road.

Mirroring others’ trades is an attractive solution to the problem of how to successfully invest your money without actually investing all of your time and effort. Now Robinvest has innovated the concept of mirroring by adding a one-click button that lets you duplicate someone else’s trade.

Declinism, attractive as it is, is an easy stance to take. It can be defended with nothing more than paeans to the way things were, rooted more in sentiment than facts or data. Because of this, the back of a declinist’s head is populated, always, with the nagging suspicion that everyone feels this way about

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone’s viciously brilliant political reporter, perhaps best known for coining the term ‘vampire squid’ to describe Goldman Sachs’ stranglehold on government and our economy, has aimed his sights at Bank of America for his latest feature. In the article, Taibbi accuses Bank of America of being “too corrupt to fail,” documenting the