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Is Your Bank Working For You Or Against You?

Posted by jaybol 207 days ago, popular 206 days ago (http://www.mint.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: banks finance
Now that taxpayers have bailed out the banks, they are on your side, right? After all you’re not just a customer anymore, you’re an owner. But perhap[...] read more »
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Retail Tricks That Make You Overspend

Posted by jaybol 284 days ago (http://www.mint.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: jobs shopping spending
You owe me one! When marketers tap into our natural propensity to return a favor, the money flows. That’s how Tupperware-party participants (plied with friendly chitchat and free crudites) get swept up in a buying frenzy. read more »
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What Freelancers Need to Know About Their Taxes

Posted by jaybol 290 days ago (http://www.mint.com)
Category: Entrepreneurship | Tags: economy freelance jobs taxes web
With unemployment rates at their highest in 15 years, there’s never been a better time to consider becoming a freelancer. Companies may not be hiring the way they once were but there’s still a huge demand for skilled workers. Programmers, web design read more »
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Shooting for their dream business

Posted by jaybol 307 days ago (http://www.boston.com)
Category: Entrepreneurship | Tags: entrepreneur finance web apps
Heather and Jesse Ciras have a dream. The couple, who have a fledgling photography business shooting weddings on weekends, wants to build their part-[...] read more »
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Fed cuts key rate to a target of zero percent to 0.25%

Posted by jaybol 339 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy fed
In its latest effort to try and stimulate the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate to a range of between zero percent and 0.25[...] read more »
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Half of rescued borrowers default anyway

Posted by jaybol 347 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: real estate
More than half of delinquent homeowners whose mortgages were modified earlier this year ended up redefaulting within six months, a top bank regulator[...] read more »
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Should You Walk Away From Your Home?

Posted by jaybol 352 days ago (http://blog.mint.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: economy finance real estate
You’ve worked like crazy to stay on top of bills for years. You may have already fought your way back from bad credit and don’t want to let your cred[...] read more »
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Why the Dollar is Getting Stronger

Posted by jaybol 357 days ago, popular 356 days ago (http://www.spiegel.de)
Category: Currencies | Tags: currency dollar economy
Strong demand for US debt, as well as general fear, are sending investors back to the greenback. read more »
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Tribune Owner Sam Zell on the Future of the Newspaper Industry

Posted by jaybol 358 days ago (http://www.portfolio.com)
Category: Business | Tags: business newspaper tribune
But the answer is everybody's advertising is dramatically down. We've seen literally the destruction of classified advertising. You know, not just [...] read more »
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The Black Friday Survival Guide

Posted by jaybol 358 days ago (http://blog.mint.com)
Category: Business | Tags: budget business shopping
With the economy struggling, many retail stores are painfully aware that it is going to take big price cuts on Friday to fill up the parking lots and[...] read more »
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A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

Posted by jaybol 367 days ago, popular 366 days ago (http://blog.mint.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: business economy finance
Here is a visual guide to help you understand the events leading up to the bailout.[...] read more »
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Title Inflation in Lieu of Raises: Maybe Everyone Will Be a CEO

Posted by jaybol 385 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: business economy. ny times jobs
Leonard M. Lodish, a consultant who is a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, says the title of president has[...] read more »
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Will Your Recession Be Tall, Grande, or Venti?

Posted by jaybol 388 days ago, popular 386 days ago (http://www.slate.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy
In the same spirit, I propose the Starbucks theory of international economics. The higher the concentration of expensive, nautically themed...[...] read more »
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Have We Learned Enough?

Posted by jaybol 390 days ago, popular 388 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: depression economy
Have we learned what caused the Depression of the 1930s? Most important, have we learned enough to avoid doing the same thing again? read more »
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So, When Will Banks Give Loans?

Posted by jaybol 390 days ago, popular 388 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: business journalism
In point of fact, the dirty little secret of the banking industry is that it has no intention of using the money to make new loans. But this executiv[...] read more »
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