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Where you store your money matters, especially if you're aiming to build wealth.

Luckily, personal finance site GOBankingRates named the best banks for 2017 across five different categories, so you can find the best one for your individual goals. 

GOBankingRates evaluated the 100 largest banks in the country by asset size according to the FDIC — including both online-only and traditional brick-and-mortar institutions — ranking each on a variety of factors... Читать дальше...

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Productivity is a process.

Before you can sit down and do things, you have to sit down and plan to do things. Which is why your ability to get things done tomorrow depends heavily on your ability to organize, schedule, and reflect today.

Below, we've rounded up nine relatively quick tasks you can complete right now to make the next day awesome.

1. Write a 'done' list

A to-do list, while helpful, can cause a lot of anxiety because it shows how much progress you have left to make. Читать дальше...

Over the recent years, China has stepped up their space game. The CEO of Space Angels Network, Chad Anderson, explains how China could rival with the leading forces in space explorations.

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The Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers 18-16 on Sunday in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. The game came down a two-point conversion that was waved off because of a penalty, and after the game, tight end Travis Kelce did not hold back his feelings.

With just under three minutes to go, the Chiefs scored a touchdown to pull within two points. They then seemingly tied the game by converting the two-point conversion. However, it was waved off when holding was called on left tackle Eric Fisher. Читать дальше...

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On January 12, President Barack Obama created five new national monuments, bringing his total to 34 — more than any other president.

In total, the new monuments cover about 55,000 acres. Two of the protected areas — the California Coastal National Monument and Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument — are expansions of monuments designated by Bill Clinton. The other three will preserve historic sites related to Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement... Читать дальше...

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Even straight out of school, earning an MBA means a healthy salary bump for graduates, especially in lucrative industries like consulting.

And with increasing demand for management consultants, elite firms are doling out hefty compensation packages to stay competitive and attract top talent. In fact, at many places, the base pay for MBAs starts at $140,000 — more than $60,000 higher than the starting salaries that many candidates earn right out of college. On top of that... Читать дальше...

Sal Khan began tutoring his family members over the web. This small act of kindness turned into the Khan Academy, a company that offers educational videos for people all over the world. Khan is one of Silicon Valley's biggest stars, and Bill Gates, was one of the first people to take interest.

As more and more companies experiment with self-driving cars, new questions arise about how the vehicles should respond in certain situations. If someone runs into the middle of the street, should it swerve and kill the driver or keep going and kill the pedestrian? These are some difficult moral dilemmas, and so researchers at MIT have created a website called "Moral Machine" to let humans decide what the cars should do in various scenarios. 

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Morgan Stanley has released a big report on the "Big Debates" of 2017, which highlights the key questions they think will shape global markets over the next 12 months.

Will protectionism hinder US growth? Will the bank stock rally continue?

Business Insider breaks down nine debates that will dominate Wall Street in the new year. 

1. Will protectionism hurt US growth?

There has been a major shift in American politics, on both sides of the aisle... Читать дальше...

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One of history's most brutal tyrants was a diagnosed schizophrenic on a mission to avenge his childhood years of repressed rage, according to Henry Murray, an American psychologist and a Harvard professor.

In 1943, the US Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, commissioned Murray to study Adolf Hitler's personality to try to predict his behavior. In his 229-page report, "Analysis of the Personality of Adolf Hitler," Murray described Hitler as a paranoid "utter... Читать дальше...

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No one knows for sure what Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will do after Verizon completes its planned $4.8 billion acquisition of the company.

Given her experience, Mayer could pursue another CEO job. Or take an executive role at a big tech company. She could even launch her own startup.

What we know so far is that Mayer has said she wants to stay at the Verizon-owned Yahoo. And she will step down from the board of the remaining, un-acquired parts of Yahoo — mostly the company's Asian investments ... Читать дальше...

The winter season turns the outdoors into a frosty wonderland. But if you venture too far out onto that beautiful mirror-like frozen lake, it may crack apart beneath your feet. We hope it won't but, if it does, here's what to do.

Millennials might be giving Boomers flack for how easy life in Canada is for them, but statistically they might not be benefiting as much as previously thought. Despite soaring property prices that are assumed to mostly benefit older Canadians, the latest Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada shows Boomers might be working more now than ever. Despite the robust growth stated most of the jobs created were part-time, and almost half went to people 55 years of age or older.

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Vilnius (AFP) - Lithuania said Monday it plans to use EU funds to build a fence on the border with Russia's highly militarised Kaliningrad exclave to boost security and prevent smuggling.

Baltic states have repeatedly voiced their concern at the Russian military build-up in the exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, both EU and NATO members.

Construction of the 130-kilometre (80-mile) fence will start this spring and will be finished by the end of the year, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiunas told AFP. Читать дальше...

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The 401(k) — perhaps the most ubiquitous but frequently underutilized retirement vehicle in the US — came under fire last week in a gloomy article from The Wall Street Journal, in which the very same people who championed the retirement plan decades ago now say that it hasn't served average Americans all that well.

Named after a tweak in the tax code back in 1978, the 401(k) came to life in an era when pensions offered and funded by private employers were the prominent form of retirement savings. Читать дальше...

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A few minutes after SpaceX launched one if its self-landing Falcon 9 rockets on June 28, 2015, it exploded into a rain of debris over the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA had a bunch of cargo riding on top of the rocket, and it tallied its losses at about $112 million. Meanwhile, SpaceX — founded by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk — lost tens of millions it had invested in the launch itself.

But as new financial documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal suggest... Читать дальше...

There are a ton of reasons that Chrome is the most widely used web browser — mostly for its speed, features, and ease of use. If you use Chrome every day, you'll love these five time-saving tips to get the most web-browsing experience.

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One of the most common questions that gemologists are asked is how to tell the difference between a real diamond and a fake stone.

We spoke with Reyne Hirsch, a 20th-century decorative arts expert and consultant for the global online marketplace Lofty, about how to tell when a diamond is real, and when and why to take it to an expert.

Whether it's with jewelry you inherited or something you found at a garage sale, it's easy to do a few simple DIY tests. Читать дальше...

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President Barack Obama is marking the first anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal by telling the Trump administration that the accord can't easily be undone and is preferable to war.

"The United States must remember that this agreement was the result of years of work and represents an agreement between the world's major powers — not simply the United States and Iran," Obama said in the statement.

The outgoing president noted that a diplomatic solution... Читать дальше...

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The rapid growth of the financial technology industry continued in 2016 thanks to multiple financial industry trends and several major fintech investments.

Given all this growth, it's necessary for anyone in the financial industry to stay aware of the latest trends in order to get ahead of the pack, specifically for those who work with blockchain.

Fortunately, there are dozens of conferences, expos, and seminars that exist to bring together decision makers and... Читать дальше...

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was just 39 years old when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, but the values he stood for — acceptance, equality, non-violent protest — have echoed throughout the five decades since.

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Cheryl Strayed, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the 2012 memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail," is ready to talk about money.

In the new anthology "Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living" by Manjula Martin, Strayed lifts the veil on her dire financial past.

"We almost lost our house before I sold 'Wild' [in 2009]," she told Martin in an interview for the book. "I think we had $85,000... Читать дальше...

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To Jesse Karmazin, blood is a drug.

His startup, a company called Ambrosia based in Monterey, California, is currently enrolling people in the first US clinical trial designed to find out what happens when the veins of adults are filled with the blood of young people.

In many ways, he's right about blood's life-saving qualities. A simple blood transfusion, which involves hooking up an IV and pumping the plasma of a healthy person into the veins of... Читать дальше...

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If your daily routine were a college assignment and you submitted it to your professor the scientist, chances are it would come back with a whole lot of red ink.

That is to say, you're probably making a ton of mistakes every single day that can sabotage your productivity and happiness. Think drinking coffee too early and listening to music while doing focused work.

The good news is, you can't get an "F" in life.

In fact, once you read the list below... Читать дальше...

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The partisan difference in opinion on the US economy has never been this wide in the history of at least one major survey.

Various surveys of consumer and business confidence have shown decisive improvement in sentiment since the election. Both consumers and business owners are looking forward to tax cuts, and businesses anticipate a lighter regulatory burden.

But Republicans are a lot more excited than Democrats, according to the University of Michigan. Читать дальше...