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If you’re considering a home warranty to help protect you from costly home repairs, there are several companies that want your business. Unlike the big insurance companies that provide home, life, and auto policies, home warranty companies aren’t household names. For that reason, you may feel like you’re starting from square one in your search.

The good news: I’ve done a lot of the legwork for you. After analyzing several of the top home warranty companies, three stand out as the best:

I don’t fly often.  In many ways, I’m very thankful for this.

As an infrequent flier, though, I am vulnerable to being taken advantage of.  People who fly every month or even every week have parts of their travel routine down to a science.  I’ve traveled with fliers who not only have the basics down, but have the nuances of particular airports down so well that they just breeze through.

This is like anything else:  The more you practice deliberately, the better you become.

Rules change all the time

I’m sure you’ve gotten a number of notices from various online services saying that continued use of their service requires you to accept new terms and conditions, or adherence under a new privacy policy.

Whether we read them or not, understand them or not, these change the rules of the business relationship.

This week the President revealed that even the leader of the free world is not immune to credit card identity fraud.

"I went to a restaurant up in New York when I was — during the U.N.

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On September 18, the S&P 500 closed the day at 2,011.36. As of my writing, the S&P 500 sits at 1,864.84. In other words, the S&P 500 has lost 7.3% of its value in less than a month.

Let’s put that in dollars and cents.

Let’s say that on September 18, I had $100,000 in my retirement account invested in a stock mutual fund that’s made up of something very similar to the S&P 500. This is pretty typical for people who are saving hard for their retirement.

Right now, that investment is only worth $92,715.38. $7,284.62 has vanished into thin air.

If you had $500,000 invested on September 18, $36,423.12 has vanished since then.

That kind of quick drop is scary to a lot of people. It’s not altogether different than the feeling you get when you’re riding a roller coaster and you start to drop off of a tall hill. It can make you feel a bit queasy if you think about it too much.

This article is by editor Linda Vergon.

The small, rectangular ceramic flower pots I kept in the two window sills of my bathroom had never budged an inch in the 14 years I owned the home, but one day I saw that one was close to falling out onto the counter below. I wondered if a small earthquake had caused it to move as I pushed it back in place. About a week later, I came home to find that the pot had actually fallen completely off the little ledge and onto the counter. This time I stopped to understand why, and I discovered that the small window was separated from the sill. I went outside. From there I could tell that the window had been pried from the house and someone had left a hacksaw on the ground. Evidently, I surprised whoever was trying to make their way into my home.

Salary negotiation is not always easy, especially if you don't know the value you and your position bring to your team and to your company.

So ask yourself these six questions and uncover your true market worth before you start driving a hard bargain.

This post comes from Jacqui Kenyon at our partner site LearnVest.

Have you ever gotten absorbed in a project on your laptop, only to look at the clock to see that three hours have passed?

TODAY Money calls it the “hypnotic effects of technology,” and it’s just one of several factors contributing to a new and dangerous office trend: binge working.

With more and more employees connected at all hours, anxious about money and job security, and pumped up on good ol’ caffeine, working beyond any semblance of a normal office day is becoming more common—and sometimes with dangerous results.