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The new RoboCoin ATM machine to buy and sell bitcoin has launched this week. The new ATM will allow anyone to buy the virtual currency BitCoin with actual dollar bills, right on the street corner.
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A child born in 2012 is estimated to cost $241,080 to raise.
It’s becoming increasingly expensive to have kids. But it has never been cheaper to clothe and feed them, as well. The total cost of raising a child born in 2012 is estimated at $241,080 – and double that if your child attends college. That’s a 23% increase from 1960. So what is getting more expensive?
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The retirement financial guys think we have a retirement saving crisis. A study recently released by the National Institute on Retirement Security shows that we are in bad shape. Retirement saving is dangerously low especially for folks without retirement accounts. Let’s take a look at the data.
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Nearly half of adults are limiting their child’s college choices based on price.
Families are cost-cutting before their kids even apply to schools because of the financial burden of paying for college. According to a new survey by Discover Student Loans, And it’s affecting students’ decisions about not only where to go, but what to study.
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It will cost 241,080 to raise a child born in 2012, $301,970 adjusted for inflation.
On average, a middle-income family will spend $241,080 for 18 years to raise a child born in 2012, a 2.6 percent increase from a year ago that outpaces the broader inflation rate, according to a government report.
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Millions of former students are struggling under the weight of loans.
There are millions of students who are senselessly defaulting on their student loans while failing to take advantage of programs meant to protect them financially. And chances are, it’s the poorest, least sophisticated borrowers who are suffering worst.
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Sixty-one percent of Internet users bank online.
Sixty-one percent of Internet users in the US now access their bank accounts on the Web. While, 35 percent of cell phone owners in the US bank using their mobile phones.
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Home 3D printers could save the average home $2,000 a year.
Authors at Michigan Technological University have produced a study on 3D printing that says a home 3D printer can provide a return on investment of 20 to 40 percent and can save the average home up to $2,000 in avoided purchase costs.
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The mega rich are getting richer.
Last year, there were a record-breaking 12 million people around the world who were millionaires, with the US experiencing the biggest jump in super-rich residents.
Litecoin
In an attempt to launch Bitcoin, Winklevoss may have made investing in this virtual currency a little too mainstream for some people’s taste, there is no need to worry. The crypto community has it covered and is pumping up the next new thing: Litecoins.
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Winklevoss twins
Bitcoin, an alternative crypto-currency, exists outside the realms of governments and central banks. But now, two backers of the digital money are seeking to bring bitcoin into the investing mainstream — if they win the approval of the United States government.
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Bitcoin
It has been a roller coaster ride for Bitcoin over the past few months. Bitcoin rose in value from $33 at the end of February (then an all-time high) to a peak of nearly $266 on April 10, followed by the crash of as much as 70 percent.
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