
Claire Ballentine
Personal Finance Reporter at Bloomberg Wealth
Reporter for @wealth covering personal finance. Duke Class of 2018. Lover of running, books, dogs and alpacas. Opinions are my own. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Paige Smith |Claire Ballentine
Sales are slipping at McDonalds. Airlines are worried that travelers will cut back as well. Consumers are falling behind on credit-card payments at the fastest pace in more than a decade. But sticker shock has yet to register for the residents of America’s affluent suburbs and downtown condos, the target audience for the newly revamped—and more expensive than ever—Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Paige Smith |Claire Ballentine
Sales are slipping at McDonalds. Airlines are worried that travelers will cut back as well. Consumers are falling behind on credit-card payments at the fastest pace in more than a decade. But sticker shock has yet to register for the residents of America’s affluent suburbs and downtown condos, the target audience for the newly revamped—and more expensive than ever—Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Paige Smith |Claire Ballentine
Shoppers on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida. (Bloomberg) -- Sales are slipping at McDonalds. Airlines are worried that travelers will cut back as well. Consumers are falling behind on credit-card payments at the fastest pace in more than a decade. But sticker shock has yet to register for the residents of America’s affluent suburbs and downtown condos, the target audience for the newly revamped—and more expensive than ever—Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Claire Ballentine |Greg Ryan
Reshaping higher education has been a key goal of President Donald Trump in his second term, a mission that has included attacks on Harvard University and stricter scrutiny of visa applications from foreign students. (Bloomberg) -- Ryan Sutherland thought he had all the credentials needed to win a prestigious Fulbright fellowship.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Claire Ballentine
The job market for new college grads is brutal. But you know who is also having a hard time? Their parents. I know, I know, they’re not the ones actually experiencing rejections and hiring freezes in fields ranging from software engineering to finance and non-profits. Still, after writing this piece about young people struggling to land entry-level jobs, I kept thinking about the parents or caretakers supporting them.
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