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16 hours ago ago from Good Financial Cents -Jeff Rose Certified Financial Planner and Investment Advisor, Carbondale, Illinois
H ave you ever started your car, began to drive, and noticed that it feels a bit sluggish? So sluggish that in order to accelerate, you have to push the pedal to the floor just to move forward. Sure, your first thought is: why didn’t I turn this scrapheap of metal in for something spanking new during the summer’s Cash for Clunkers program? Then you realize you left the parking brake on; whereupon you release it and move forward as expected. ...
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19 hours ago ago from MBA Admissions Blog by MBA Game Plan
A recent article on Forbes.com , describes how jobless grads are increasingly applying to graduate school as a backup option in the face of a bad job market, even though some of their possible post-school job prospects are also disappearing. Law schools and MBA programs aren't the only ones that have seen an influx of applicants. Even schools of journalism have seen record numbers of applications this past year, even though this is a ...
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1 day ago ago from FOX Business
Existing users please login User Name: Password: Remember me on this computer Home / Markets / Industries / Government Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Obama Urges Small Banks to Lend, Eyes Red Tape  Reuters  WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama urged the ...
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Across the nation, in our communities and neighborhoods, we are experiencing the effects of the economic downturn. Jobs have vanished at rates not seen since the Great Depression, and many know someone who lost their job as a result of the recession. The Democratic Congress has been focused on turning around our economy, and acted on our commitment by enacting several measures that have already created or saved more than a million jobs this ...
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When push comes to shove, pistols with blanks are useless. The same can be said about the ballooning ranks of economic dreamers -- those self-professed financial experts who keep pounding the table that we're out of the woods. One of their arguments -- which cannot be dismissed -- is the rebounding stock market, a frequent harbinger of a peppier economy. Currently, though, the dreamers could be setting us up for a nightmare. One member of ...
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You know the Dickens: It's a "tale of two cities," "the best of times and the worst of times." On Wall Street, the big banks, basted with public succor, are ladling out record bonuses. Their leaders are arrogant enough to stiff the president's invitation to the woodshed. Even at AIG, still a ward of the government, the hubris is such that the executives that led the company into bankruptcy now are threatening to sue anyone who dares tamper ...
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