Tag: money
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December 19, 2007 11:27 AM EST --
With a jittery economy, many Americans may think twice these days about where they invest their money. And yet, think as they may, smart people too often make dumb financial bets: on what will bring happiness, . . .
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October 01, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
In overall earning power, American women still lag American men. But among the young and urban, in some of the country's hottest cities - New York, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis - young women are actually . . .
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May 19, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
The rich aside, it's not an easy time out there, economically, for Americans today.
Recession, insecurity, and inflation hit everyone but thirty-something journalist Nan Mooney sees a generational . . .
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February 06, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
"Think what you do when you run in debt: you give another Power over your Liberty." 250 years ago, Ben Franklin published that adage and many more in a volume called "The Way . . .
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January 17, 2008 10:53 AM EST --
This morning, banking giant Merrill announced the bad news everyone has been waiting for: ten billion dollars lost just in the last 3 months of '07, and 11-and-a-half billion dollars of bad . . .
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July 14, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
With frightening stakes for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve are stepping in with a plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the backers of nearly half of American mortgage debt. . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
From the beginning of the republic, Ben Franklin on down, frugality and thrift were part of Americans' moral education. Now, we're the credit card, subprime, lottery nation.
But . . .
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September 24, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
Today in much of the world, whaling is the great taboo. People long to save the massive creatures of the ocean’s deep. But when America was young and the earth's seas were teeming, . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
There's been a little relief in the stock markets at the beginning of this week, but what a wild ride it's been lately. Oodles of money have been lost in markets and real estate, and nobody . . .
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April 03, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
On the economic front these days, the buzz word is crisis: Wall Street, housing, credit crunch, falling dollar, recession.
The headlines are scary. And now they're full of proposed fixes, too.But . . .
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