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Early-Bird Taxpayers Get the Refund (infographic)

Posted by jaybol 38 days ago, popular 37 days ago (http://blog.turbotax.intuit.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance taxes
A TurboTax survey found that 82 percent of taxpayers who filed before the end of February got money back. In fact, 40 percent of all tax returns are [...] read more »
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Is Your Bank Working For You Or Against You?

Posted by jaybol 322 days ago, popular 321 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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Why the Dollar is Getting Stronger

Posted by jaybol 472 days ago, popular 471 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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A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

Posted by jaybol 481 days ago, popular 481 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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Will Your Recession Be Tall, Grande, or Venti?

Posted by jaybol 503 days ago, popular 501 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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So, When Will Banks Give Loans?

Posted by jaybol 505 days ago, popular 503 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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Have We Learned Enough?

Posted by jaybol 505 days ago, popular 503 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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Green Policies in California Generated Jobs, Study Finds

Posted by jaybol 511 days ago, popular 511 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Green | Tags: california green
California’s energy-efficiency policies created nearly 1.5 million jobs from 1977 to 2007, while eliminating fewer than 25,000, according to a study[...] read more »
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Economic Puzzles: Suddenly, Europe Looks Pretty Smart

Posted by jaybol 512 days ago, popular 511 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bailouts europe
In recent years, as Wall Street boomed, Americans often dismissed Europe as a place for languorous meals and vacations, not economic innovation. read more »
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How Fear is Making the Economic Crisis Worse Than It Needs to Be

Posted by jaybol 513 days ago, popular 512 days ago (http://www.slate.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy fear psychology
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed at his first inauguration in March 1933, amid the worst...[...] read more »
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Op-Classic by Milton Friedman, 1989: We Have Socialism, Q.E.D.

Posted by jaybol 512 days ago, popular 512 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy finance
In 1989, the year the government bailed out the savings and loan industry, the economist Milton Friedman denounced socialism's inroads in the US[...] read more »
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Warren Buffett: "Buy American. I Am."

Posted by jaybol 512 days ago, popular 512 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Stocks
To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-ter[...] read more »
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Special Report: How Our Economy is Killing Our Earth

Posted by jaybol 514 days ago, popular 512 days ago (http://www.newscientist.com)
Category: Green | Tags: business economy environment
In this special issue, New Scientist brings together key thinkers from politics, economics and philosophy who profoundly disagree with the growth...[...] read more »
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$596 Trillion! How can the derivatives market be worth more than the world's total financial assets?

Posted by jaybol 514 days ago, popular 513 days ago (http://www.slate.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: derivatives economy
By contrast, the value of the world's financial assets—including all stock, bonds, and bank deposits—was pegged at $167 trillion last year by McKins[...] read more »
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9 Sites That Help With Everyday Budgeting

Posted by jaybol 514 days ago, popular 514 days ago (http://finance.yahoo.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance
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.[...] read more »
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