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15 Real Ways to Conserve (and save money!)

Posted by ultrageek 1283 days ago, popular 1282 days ago (http://www.shoestringbudget.org)
Category: Green | Tags: economy personal finance
Some commonsense ways to save money around the house while following a "conserve" philosophy. read more »
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Many Blue chip stocks now under $10 a share

Posted by ultrageek 1284 days ago, popular 1283 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: blue chip economy stock market stocks
So many "blue chip" stocks are now under $10/share that they no longer qualify to be part of one or more market indexes. read more »
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Paulson Sneaks In Tax Code Change For Bank Merger

Posted by ultrageek 1284 days ago, popular 1283 days ago (http://therealnews.com)
Category: Business | Tags: banks economy
Hank Paulson sneaks a tax code change through congress so that a $140B bank merger tax break can happen. read more »
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FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime - OR - More Crap to Come

Posted by ultrageek 1284 days ago, popular 1283 days ago (http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: economy housing mortgages subprime
Think we've seen the worst of the subprime mortgages mess? Apparently not, and it's an encore performance by the same lovely people who put us in t[...] read more »
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Starting Salaries and Inflation Over The Last Decade

Posted by ultrageek 1285 days ago, popular 1285 days ago (http://www.collegecrunch.org)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: economy inflation salaries wages
Nearly everything has increased in price at a rate between two and three percent per year. Have salaries kept up with inflation? read more »
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What did Paulson and Bernanke do with $2 Trillion?

Posted by ultrageek 1286 days ago, popular 1285 days ago (http://www.alternet.org)
Category: Economy | Tags: bailout banking economy
Your tax dollars are hard at work. But no one seems to know exactly where $2Tr that Bernanke + Paulson handed out went to. Can you say "let's rape [...] read more »
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25 Things President Obama Should Try to Change

Posted by ultrageek 1287 days ago, popular 1287 days ago (http://www.businesspundit.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: capital gains economy recession
A suggested action plan for the new president, mostly focusing on the economic situation and how to help the small business owners and the average ci[...] read more »
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Going to College During a Bad Economy

Posted by ultrageek 1292 days ago, popular 1291 days ago (http://www.collegecrunch.org)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: economy education
Even with the current economic mess, there's one thing that hasn't changed: people having to go to college. Here are a few tips for keeping college[...] read more »
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Can Detroit's Big Three Be Salvaged?

Posted by ultrageek 1292 days ago, popular 1291 days ago (http://money.aol.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: automotive economy
Remember what happened during the 70s and 80s in the automotive sector? Can Washington, D.C., even save Detroit's big three carmakers? read more »
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52 Career Starting Salaries

Posted by ultrageek 1294 days ago, popular 1292 days ago (http://www.collegecrunch.org)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: career personal finance
With all the layoffs going on, there might be the urge to find a new career. Here are the starting salaries for 52 careers. read more »
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10 Money Saving Tools For Small Business

Posted by ultrageek 1293 days ago, popular 1292 days ago (http://www.businesspundit.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: small business tools
Here are a few mostly free web-based tools that small business owners struggling through the current economic climate might want to have a look at. read more »
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21 Most Recession & Depression-Proof Jobs

Posted by ultrageek 1298 days ago, popular 1297 days ago (http://www.brainz.org)
Category: Economy | Tags: career economy recession
Times are tough and jobs are being eliminated, but if you have one of these 21 jobs, you're probably quite safe. read more »
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Time to Buy Treasury Bonds?

Posted by ultrageek 1299 days ago, popular 1298 days ago (http://www.businesspundit.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bonds investments
Bonds tend to be sold when govts need money. Which might be why the U.S. govt is planing to sell U$55B of them next week, at a rate of 5% annual -- a[...] read more »
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Unemployment to rise in Obama's 1st year in office?

Posted by ultrageek 1299 days ago, popular 1298 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy unemployment
Any new president left with the current economic mess has their work cut out for them. Obama is no different, and it's likely that jobless rates wil[...] read more »
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Economists See Recession Through 2009

Posted by ultrageek 1301 days ago, popular 1301 days ago (http://money.aol.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy recession
American economists are now saying that they see the current recession lasting through all of 2009, something consumer sentiment seems to be echoing. read more »
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