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"Joe the Plumber" Don't complain about taxes if you don't pay taxes.

Joe the Plumber wants to buy a plumbing business, unfortunately he still owes money in back taxes. [...] read more »
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Wealthy Shop Low End as Crisis Bites

Wealthy Americans are rubbing shoulders with the masses in low-end retailers such as Costco Wholesale (COST.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) [...] read more »
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Why do we need stock markets?

Share values have dominated the news for weeks yet for many of us they seem a world away from our day-to-day life. Professor Alec Chrystal explains w[...] read more »
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IMF steps in to help stabilise Ukraine

The global credit crisis deepened on Thursday as Hungary and Ukraine turned to international institutions for support in an effort to avoid following[...] read more »
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Moscow supermarket shelves increasingly empty in Soviet era reminder

Russian shoppers have been served an uncomfortable reminder of the Soviet era after finding shelves in some Moscow supermarkets empty, a further sign[...] read more »
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Microsoft says Yahoo! takeover would make sense

The long-running on-off romance between Microsoft and Yahoo! moved a step closer to being rekindled on Thursday after the head of the software giant [...] read more »
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Oil Prices Down 50% Since Summer

Prices drop to levels not seen in more than a year, after government report shows larger-than-expected growth in the nation's supplies of crude oil [...] read more »
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Credit Card Debt at the Tipping Point?

"A long build-up in consumer indebtedness, deteriorating economic conditions and a potential 'sudden stop' in credit availability could cause...[...] read more »
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Adbrite Lays Off 40% Of Staff, Including Two Execs

It's not a happy day at San Francisco-based Adbrite this morning. The company is laying off 40 employees, which is 40% of total staff. Among those t[...] read more »
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CIT Group's 3Q loss widens, restructuring unit

Financial-services company CIT Group Inc. said Thursday third-quarter losses widened due to significant charges related to the company's vendor-fina[...] read more »
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Yahoo to cut 3,500 jobs -- party on! [RUMOR?]

A tipster tells us that Yahoo plans to cut 3,500 jobs, chiefly in sales and finance, on December 10 — while keeping plans for a multimillion-dollar h[...] read more »
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A Simple Exercise to Reduce Financial Anxiety

Given the state of the economy and the stock market, I thought it would be a great idea to share this exercise with you to help reduce any stress you[...] read more »
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Eating on $25 a Week

They agreed to spend no more than $25 on food for a week -- that's about $3.50 a day -- and blog about what they learned during the experience.[...] read more »
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Financial crisis: Has the £2 trillion financial bail-out package failed?

Money doesn't go as far these days - everybody know that. But has the £2 trillion (£2,000,000,000,000) injection into the financial markets by gover[...] read more »
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FTSE 100 tumbles in painful day for stock markets

Shares in Britain's biggest travel companies were the hardest hit in another black day for the FTSE 100, as investors called time on the UK consumer[...] read more »
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