Daily Digest – September 16. Making Ends Meet on $7.50/Hour; Most Likely Lemons

Some quick links to start your Wednesday. Default and delinquency rates on auto loans remain historically low … Hewlett-Packard laying off up to 30,000 workers … President Obama went on a Twitter rant about the economy … Is it possible for the costs of being constantly connected to outweigh the benefits? … What to watch for in tonight’s Republican presidential debate … Four business meetings you should never take … What the average American Express, Visa, and Mastercard customer spend every month … The world’s coolest offices.

NEWS 

• Noted plaintiffs’ attorney Sergei Lemberg has posted what he calls his “Lemon Index,” or the list of car models that are most likely to be lemons. He claims to use data from the federal government and car manufacturers in developing the list. For cars made in the 2014 model year, the most likely to be lemons are:

• This is kind of sad. A report on the student lending crisis yields this quote from a 38-year old: “Frankly, going to school hasn’t benefited [me] at all. It has made my life worse, and it drove me further back into the industry I wanted to get out of in the first place.”

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