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Rudro is an Editor with Moneywise. His work has appeared on Yahoo Finance, MSN, MSN Money, Apple News, Samsung News and the San Diego Union Tribune.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto, where he majored in Psychology with dual minors in Biology and Professional Writing. In his civilian life, Rudro loves exploring exciting culinary experiences and immersing himself in a good video game.

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Portrait of worried woman feeling stressed while working through finances in kitchen late at night, thinking how to pay off credit card debt

Credit Cards • Nov 20

How to lower your credit card interest rate

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Credit Cards • Oct 04

How I Got Over My Fear of Credit Cards (and You Can, Too)

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Relaxed woman on couch browsing the Internet

Loans • Mar 17

How online installment loans work

By Rudro Chakrabarti
A credit score increasing while money goes into a piggy bank

Loans • Jan 06

This Loan Helps You Build Credit — and Saves You Money

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Man and woman being interviewed and a photo of a sinking home

Real Estate • Mar 22

Utah homes under 4 years old are sinking, cracking and leaking radon; how to avoid this real estate nightmare

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Real Estate • Mar 22

Kentucky farm family rejects $26M from mystery data center giant. Why American farmers are saying no to Big Tech

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Victoria Benally's shack.

Real Estate • Oct 11

Navajo elder lived in dirt-floor shack for 77 years — now she’s getting a real house. How her dream came true in her 80s

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Retirement • Dec 05

This company has your back on retirement planning

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Retirement • Dec 04

Jump-start your retirement plan

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Mark Zuckerberg and a Meta data center.

News • 20h ago

Meta reportedly calls its AI data centers ‘pilot models’ — its research tax credits jumped from $700M to $3.9B

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Mark Zuckerberg at the Super Intelligence Luncheon.

News • 18h ago

Meta counted Mark Zuckerberg’s $4.1B stock payout as research pay to claim a $355M tax break — and the IRS wants it back

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Mark Zuckerberg shows off Muse.

News • 48872 views

Man says Meta's AI agent Muse shared his address, took a lowball offer and told a buyer he was home — nobody came down

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Colorful American Home

Mortgages • Sep 25

Low Mortgage Rates Help Shatter Home Sales Records

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Mortgages • Jan 31

Tempted by Low Mortgage Rates, Millennials Find Homebuying Overwhelming

By Rudro Chakrabarti
wooden house model on the grass in garden

Mortgages • Oct 07

Mortgage Rates Stay Flat

By Rudro Chakrabarti
A photo of speaker Mike Johnson

Investing • May 17

Mike Johnson says lawmakers' $174K+ salaries haven't kept up with inflation — they need stock trading for support

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Investing • May 19

What is a robo-advisor?

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Investing • Jun 09

Morgan Stanley Says These Stocks Are a Risky Buy Right Now

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Loans • Mar 17

How online installment loans work

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Banking • Sep 04

How to transfer money from bank to bank

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Banking • Oct 18

Is a senior checking account a good idea?

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Banking • Apr 25

What is APY?

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Insurance • Jun 24

How to find cheap car insurance for teens

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Insurance • Jan 29

Be Sure You're Getting the Best Car Insurance Rates

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Managing Money • Jan 02

Use a personal loan to break up with your debt

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Managing Money • Dec 19

What Is AgeUp and How Can It Help You?

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Managing Money • Sep 12

How this former prisoner found financial literacy

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Life • May 11

His first pet was a guinea pig called Carrot!

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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Life • Nov 23

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News • 18h ago

Meta counted Mark Zuckerberg’s $4.1B stock payout as research pay to claim a $355M tax break — and the IRS wants it back

Meta says Zuckerberg was writing code when he got his options in 2005. The IRS says only his work from 2008 to 2010 counts, and $355 million rides on who's right.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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News • 20h ago

Meta reportedly calls its AI data centers ‘pilot models’ — its research tax credits jumped from $700M to $3.9B

The company appears to have netted the most from that credit among all publicly traded companies.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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News • 48872 views

Man says Meta's AI agent Muse shared his address, took a lowball offer and told a buyer he was home — nobody came down

'Absolutely wild,' Matt Robb wrote in a Threads post after letting Muse handle his marketplace listings for the day.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a DoorDasher struggling through the snow.

News • Sep 23

DoorDash says it 'screwed up' payments to 264K NYC workers, agrees to $131.5M settlement. Most will get less than $50

Mamdani celebrated the settlement as a historic victory for New York City workers.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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News • Sep 21

Nvidia's CEO Huang says there's a ‘0% chance’ AI ends the world — 4 AI giants are sued over an alleged pact to slow it

Jensen Huang calls AI extinction warnings a doomsday narrative. Four subscribers say the companies that raised them made an illegal pact.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Robert Wilson is alleged to have used his freight haul to clear his drug debt.

News • Sep 20

Truck driver allegedly gave away $250K load of chicken to clear drug debt — police caught 12 others unloading it

Police say the driver opened his own trailer and let 12 people take a $250,000 load of Koch Foods chicken. Food cargo theft jumped 47% last year.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Anthropic CEO Amodei looks tense

News • Sep 14

Anthropic CEO warns a rogue AI 'swarm' could seize the internet within a year and cause 'hundreds of billions' in damage

Roughly 700 OpenAI test agents built their own message board, called themselves a collective and hacked a major AI platform. Anthropic's CEO says a more capable version could be months away.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

News • Sep 09

'Gambling with our lives': AI researcher quits Anthropic and leaves AI entirely over what he calls a threat to humanity

Jacob Coxon spent three years building AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic. On Sept. 8 he resigned from Anthropic and left the industry.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Muzamil Ahmed pictured alongside gold and cash.

News • Sep 08

Over 200 US seniors hand over fortunes in $250M gold scheme — 40+ indicted after bullion melted down in Florida

The prime suspect's indictment accuses him of swindling one Tarrant County resident out of between $30,000 and $150,000 and of taking money or gold from more than 35 other people.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Prime Minister Mark Carney gives a statement on dead trade deal.

News • Aug 22

Mark Carney warns 'America has changed,' vows to match 50% tariffs on $20B of Canadian goods 'dollar for dollar'

He pulled Canada's negotiators out of Washington on Friday night, calling last-minute U.S. changes to the terms 'unfair, uneconomic.'

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Pinkchyu poses with Drake.

News • Aug 16

Drake told a 23-year-old streamer he'd 'love to' buy her mom a house after picking her on dating show. Who pays the tax?

Viral 'goth baddie' streamer Pinkchyu made her mom cry when she told her the news.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Warren Buffett

News • Aug 09

Berkshire breaks 14-quarter selling streak with $23.5B of stock buys — $10B went to 1 company at a private price

More than 40% of it went into a single private placement, priced about 1% under what public buyers paid in the same deal.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Megan Rapinoe celebrates a goal against France with her teammates.

News • Jul 19

The US women's soccer team gets $6.4M from the men's World Cup run — $246K each even though they didn't play a minute

Critics call it unfair. Supporters call it the whole point. Either way, the women's team gets an equal cut of the men's $16 million pool.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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News • Jul 16

Taco Bell lettuce tied to 'explosive' diarrhea parasite outbreak — Taylor Farms a potential source, investigators say

The parasite has sickened thousands and put more than 4,300 people in one corner of Michigan at the center of the outbreak.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Elon Musk and Sam Altman

News • Jul 12

Elon Musk roasts OpenAI's Apple lawsuit — but Altman hits back: 'You're the one selling investors on space datacenters'

The two billionaires exchanged barbs on X over Apple's allegations that OpenAI is stealing operational secrets related to Apple's proprietary hardware.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Tim Cook

News • Jul 12

'LOL ... so funny': Apple says ex-engineer stole secrets and coached a colleague to do the same. He now works at OpenAI

Apple says the alleged theft was meant to hand OpenAI a shortcut into the hardware business — and that it started with an engineer who never lost his key to the building.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Trump and an Axon taser

News • Jun 30

Trump's account bought up to $5M in Taser maker Axon — two weeks later, ICE sought a $220M government contract

Experts say only Axon can win the contract. What the timing means for AXON investors.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Tim Cook and Micron building.

News • Jun 30

'Not constructive': Tim Cook blames Micron for Apple's $300 price hike. Micron suggests Apple helped cause the shortage

Apple raised prices across its lineup this week and blamed the chipmakers that supply its memory. One of those suppliers tells a different story about how the shortage started.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Elon Musk and Sam Altman, about to enter index funds through rule changes.

News • Jun 28

SpaceX landed in millions of 401(k)s through index funds — and the same rules open the door to OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX landed in your index funds 5 trading days after its IPO. OpenAI and Anthropic — worth a combined $3.6 trillion alongside it — are built to follow the same path into the funds you already own.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Xin Liu, 40, a Chinese national, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for her role in an elder fraud scheme.

News • Jun 28

This Florida woman, 79, lost $200K to scammers. With cops in her living room, they called for $30K, kicking off a sting

The police say there's one thing she could have done to stop the scammers. Here's how to protect yourself.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
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News • Jun 28

Gonna buy Take-Two shares before the GTA 6 release? Here's how blockbuster game launches actually move stocks

A $1,000 bet on Take-Two at GTA V's launch is worth $13,400 today.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
GTA 6 is the most anticipated game of the decade.

News • Jun 27

Viral post says GTA 6 cost as much to build as the $1.5B+ Burj Khalifa — analysts say Take-Two could recoup that in days

Unconfirmed reports say pre-orders already pulled in $3 billion in a day.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Karoline Leavitt, fresh off maternity leave, wades straight into the pool issue.

News • Jun 26

Leavitt fires back at Walz, says 'deranged' Democratic donors vandalized $16M Reflecting Pool — experts point elsewhere

The White House press secretary called the vandalism "very real" and pointed at Democratic donors. The evidence points elsewhere.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Cars apparently drive over the wet paint

News • Jun 26

Trump blames vandals for green, peeling $16M Reflecting Pool — his motorcade drove across the wet paint weeks earlier

Experts say the likeliest culprit isn't a knife. It's a rushed job — with the presidential motorcade a possible accomplice.

By Rudro Chakrabarti
Hilmi landing in the US escorted by the FBI. Catheters were among the medical equipment the scheme exploited.

News • Jun 25

Florida man accused of $3.7B Medicare scam gets dragged back to US by FBI — here's the threat to millions of taxpayers

The scheme ran on stolen Medicare numbers, and the victims paid nothing — which is exactly why almost no one noticed.

By Rudro Chakrabarti

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