Tag: overspending

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After a good Christmas for retailers, the January regrets about overspending are inevitable.   What’s driving that regret was dramatized in a recent experiment to see if consumers could get control of their credit card balances. It was a flop. This experiment involved U.K. residents applying for credit cards who had selected the automatic payment option,…

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   Save. Budget. Spend less on takeout. “We know what we need to do,” financial behavior expert Wendy De La Rosa says. “The question is how to do it.” Consider one of the pandemic’s lessons for workers: it’s important to build up an emergency fund for a potential financial catastrophe. But how to translat…