AP reports that just after midnight, a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a bandanna across his face entered a Papa John’s restaurant in Helena, Montana and handed the clerk a note demanding money. The cashier started to comply, but then the man started crying and told the clerk he was just trying to provide […]

(MoneyWatch) Looking for love? You’d better get your finances straight.  According to a survey by CreditCards.com women said they would dump a lover who could not pay their routine bills just as quickly as they would send a guy packing that proved to have a criminal past. That survey went on to report that 70% […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Prosper, a leader in the fast-growing “peer-to-peer” lending sector, said on Tuesday it raised $20 million from venture capital firms led by Sequoia Capital, stepping up competition with rival Lending Club. Peer-to-peer lending takes the banks out of the picture providing a niche for people with less than perfect credit or […]