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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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Ballmer Speaks Yahoos Market Cap Jumps More Than $3 Billion

An off the cuff remark by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this morning set Yahoo’s stock soaring more than 15% to $13.73, adding well over $3 billion in [...] read more »
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9 Sites That Help With Everyday Budgeting

One silver lining to these tough economic times: a slew of new free online tools and services that help consumers save money and manage it wisely. Wh[...] 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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Google, Yahoo Growth Curbed as Ad Cuts Spread to Web

Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. can't shrug off the slowing economy anymore, as advertisers are forced to extend their budget cuts to Internet promotion[...] 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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Ditch the Bureaus - Check Your Credit Score with Credit Karma

Obtaining credit scores has always been an enormous hassle. You go to Annual Credit Report and request it, then you get it and it shows you the repor[...] read more »
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Macrovision’s Take For TV Guide: A Single Dollar

Why buy one copy of a magazine ($2.99) when you can buy the whole company? read more »
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Gordon Browns Reputation; Saturn-Uranus-Neptune and the resurgence of Socialism

An astrological take on everything that is happening in the financial sphere. Read all the post from the beginning of September. Food for thought! read more »
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'Joe the plumber' isn’t licensed

"Joe the Plumber" isn’t a plumber — at least not a licensed one, or a registered one. 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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Capitalizing on Emerging Markets

Emerging markets are those countries experiencing rapid economic, political, and social transformation prompted by social and financial policy reform[...] read more »
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