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03/11/2010 06:43 AM
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Living on a freelancer's budget
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Chris and Janie Peterson have an enviable life. They own a lovely 3½-bedroom ranch house just outside Minneapolis and have work schedules flexible enough to allow them lots of time with their children, Reece, 10, Cecily, 9, and Georgio, 7.
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03/11/2010 06:39 AM
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Why the U.S. can't inflate its way out of debt
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It's dawning on people that getting a handle on burgeoning U.S. debt will be a long and hard process.
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03/11/2010 06:02 AM
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Jobless claims edge lower
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The number of Americans filing for first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell last week but the number of continuing claims rose sharply, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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03/11/2010 05:30 AM
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Driving deaths plunge, fewest since 1954
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The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday that traffic fatalities in 2009 reached their lowest level since 1954.
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03/11/2010 04:10 AM
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Dollar mixed ahead of jobs data
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The dollar was mixed against other currencies Thursday, down against the pound and flat against the euro and yen, ahead of U.S. economic data.
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03/11/2010 03:35 AM
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Recall mania!
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The embarrassment suffered by Toyota is likely to have a bracing effect on other automakers causing a potential tsunami of recalls, industry sources say.
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03/11/2010 03:19 AM
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Financial advice: The yes-man problem
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Experts have long counseled against using financial planners who charge commissions, given their incentive to simply sell products that pad their paychecks.
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03/11/2010 03:27 AM
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Can you learn to be an entrepreneur?
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Gregg Fairbrothers wasn't born to business. He grew up in an academic household. "I didn't know a debit from a credit," he admits. Fairbrothers studied earth sciences at Dartmouth in the '70s, got his master's at Rutgers, and eventually moved to Tulsa, where he joined Samson, a gas driller, and earned his chops at the right hand of the company's "hard-nosed founder." He picked up an MBA, but that was "just to get the toolkit," he says. "I learned my business on the job."
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03/11/2010 03:14 AM
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Nukes in my backyard
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Long left for dead, the U.S. nuclear power industry appears poised for a comeback.
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03/11/2010 04:35 AM
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Health-care reform's 'back-door' tax
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The big talk on Capital Hill may be about health-care reform, but as part of this massive undertaking, the Democrats are quietly reshaping the tax system too. Tucked inside President Obama's latest health-care proposal is a major change to the Medicare tax.
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03/11/2010 06:17 AM
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Stocks poised for weak open
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U.S. stocks were set for a weak open Thursday as investors digests reports about the number of people filing for unemployment and the trade balance.
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03/11/2010 02:15 AM
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Hunkering down for rising interest rates
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Question: I'm 65, retired and have about 50% of my portfolio in a bond index fund. I'm thinking of switching to a short-term bond fund. Do you think that's a good idea? --Judy, Flowery Branch, Georgia
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03/11/2010 01:47 AM
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Frothy sales for craft beers
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Turns out booze isn't recession-proof.
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03/11/2010 01:34 AM
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Flunking banks out of college
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President Obama is closer to winning a big fight with banks over who gets to dole out cheap student loans backed by the federal government.
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03/11/2010 01:17 AM
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Treasury missed chances to save on GMAC bailout - panel
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The Treasury Department did not adequately consider all options when bailing out troubled finance company GMAC and could have better protected taxpayers' money, according to a report released Thursday.
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03/11/2010 12:59 AM
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Foreclosures leveling off
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The national foreclosure rate fell 2% in February from a month earlier, according to an industry report released Thursday, the latest sign that the pace of foreclosures is slowing.
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03/10/2010 03:57 PM
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Carlos Slim tops Bill Gates as world's richest man
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Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the top.
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03/10/2010 02:47 PM
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Twitter users not so social after all
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Twitter may be a fast-growing social network, but most of its 50 million accounts merely follow other users rather than posting their own messages.
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03/10/2010 04:03 PM
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Jobless claims bill OK'd by Senate
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The Senate on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging bill that would push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance until year-end and extends dozens of expired tax breaks.
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03/10/2010 01:19 PM
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Record monthly deficit for U.S.: $221 billion
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The United States dropped a record $220.9 billion further into the red in February, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.
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