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3 tips for protecting your budget during the holidays, from a financial behavior expert

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 10:06

Tech Insider : Business, Technology

Brittany Greene is a financial behavioral strategist.

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Holiday shopping season: Spending tips, gift ideas, and retail trends

Tue, 11/25/2025 - 14:29

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Travel

Shopping cart with a large gift, a long receipt, and surrounding presents. — Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

The holiday season doesn't have to be stressful. With a little planning, it can be a season of joy, giving, and smart saving.

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Gen Z and boomer shoppers are upping their holiday spending budgets despite a tough economy

Tue, 11/25/2025 - 14:09

Tech Insider : Business, Economy

Exhausted Christmas shoppers on Black Friday taking a break on massage chairs at Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia Friday, November 27, 2015.
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The 'phantom debt' of buy now, pay later is growing and will soon hit some Americans hard

Wed, 01/10/2024 - 12:39

Tech Insider : Economy

A home Depot employee moves a TV on Black Friday. — BNPL plans can lower the burden of big purchases, but come with big risks.
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'The consumer slowdown has begun': America's deteriorating shopping spree in 4 charts

Wed, 11/22/2023 - 14:30

Tech Insider : Economy

FORT WORTH, TX - NOVEMBER 27: Shoppers Jeri Hull (L) and Karen Brashear (R) wait in line while shopping at Toys'R'Us during the Black Friday sales event on November 27, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Toys'R'Us stores nationwide opened at midnight Thursday, November 26, providing shoppers access to its Black Friday deals five hours earlier than ever before.

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4 holiday spending traps a financial planner says are more expensive than you realize

Thu, 11/16/2023 - 08:34

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