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This Is the Car You’ll Wish You Bought at Tax Time

In the market for a new car in 2019? Hoping to buy a plug-in hybrid or full electric vehicle for the tax credit? They don't all qualify, warns Maryland Smith's Samuel Handwerger. 

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Feeling Unmotivated? Try Interval Working

Finding it hard to get started on some of those nagging items on your to-do list? Maryland Smith’s Nicole M. Coomber suggests you try “interval working.”

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Schedule Your (Mini)Vacations Now

Does the start of the year have you dreaming of your next vacation? There’s no time like January to plan out your vacation strategy for the year.

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Can the Avengers Save the Oscars?

Perhaps a band of superheroes is exactly what the Academy Awards ceremony needs. Left without a host, Hollywood’s biggest and most glamorous event might go on without one, instead featuring a whole cast of stars from Marvel’s Avengers franchise.

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How Brexit Failed

Brexit is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Maryland Smith's Anil Gupta explains what happens next.

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De Beers Looking To Alter Diamond Industry – Again

De Beers once swore it would never debase itself by selling stones that had been grown in a lab. Well, that was then.

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Why There's Now One Less Worry for Markets

There was a key development on Capitol Hill last week you might have missed. The decades-old Gephardt Rule, which seeks to avoid having the U.S. run afoul of the debt limit, was given new life.

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Job Interview? Avoid Raising These Red Flags

Planning to look for a new job in 2019? When you get to the interview stage, avoid raising the five most common red flags, Maryland Smith’s Patricia Reich says.

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Your Guide to the Spot-on Job Interview

There are five key stages to the typical job interview. Maryland Smith's Patricia Reich explains how to master each one.

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Make – and Keep – Your Financial Resolution

“A New Year’s Resolution is a promise to yourself,” Maryland Smith’s Elinda F. Kiss says. Here's how to make a financial resolution and make it stick.

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The Future of Cash

This is the state of money in 2019. Cash money is becoming increasingly less essential to our lives, replaced by a wider swath of other ways to pay. And it’s changing everything about what it means to be a consumer.

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