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Crypto Staking Wallet Offers 1.5% Daily Returns: Ponzi in Progress?

[Cointelegraph] A cryptocurrency staking app which offers 1.5% daily returns might be a Ponzi scheme related to one that exit-scammed two years ago. A cryptocurrency staking wallet that offers users as much as 1.5% daily returns is bearing striking resemblance to a Ponzi scheme. That’s according to a Medium article published on […]

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Opinion: More cuts to 401(k) matches are coming

[MarketWatch, Getty Images] To conserve cash, some employers are suspending contributions to their workers’ 401(k) accounts. And if this downturn plays out like previous recessions, more will follow. The handful of employers announcing suspensions in recent weeks include travel companies and retailers hit first and hardest by shrinking consumer demand, […]

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Tempted to spend that coronavirus IRS check on a vacation? Here’s what you should know

[USA TODAY] IRS checks began hitting bank accounts this week, and Americans will make different choices about how to use the money aimed at relief amid the coronavirus pandemic. One possibility: Book a vacation package, when such activity can resume. Scott Eherts and eight of his friends received checks this week and almost immediately […]

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Covid Report: Moderna Rockets On Vaccine Funding; Leaked Report Prods Gilead

[Investors] Shares of MRNA stock rocketed Friday after the biotech said it will receive up to $483 million in federal funding for its coronavirus vaccine. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA — under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — will fund the development of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, […]

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Coronavirus stimulus checks: Where is the missing money going?

[USA TODAY] Americans are reaching out to tax preparers and lining up at their offices around the country to find out what happened to their stimulus checks. One answer: The IRS sent those missing payouts to an intermediary bank account if a client got an advance on their tax return, tax professionals say. Clients […]

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