Headline News Archive
2008
July
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- Housing rescue bill may fall short. Is it a remedy for the worst housing slump the nation has suffered in decades? Or merely a taxpayer-funded bailout that will fail to reverse…
- Empleos que no sufren la crisis. Un débil crecimiento, una desaceleración de la economía y un mercado inmobiliario por los suelos son todos signos de recesión económica. La buena noticia para…
- ¿A quién ayudará la ley de rescate?. El Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó el proyecto de ley que busca apuntalar al sector hipotecario y que autorizaría préstamos por miles de millones de…
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- Working forever might not work. Baby boomers who never got around to saving as much as they hoped promised to keep working past retirement age. The joke in the generation…
- Helping women think about retirement. Women worry more about retirement than men. We fret more about inflation eroding our purchasing power. We agonize more over declining health and the rising…
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- Property tax relief, without itemizing. The giant federal housing and foreclosure relief legislation heading for enactment contains a little-noticed - but potentially far-reaching - change in real estate tax policy.…
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- It's a buyer's market. Haggle.. If there's any silver lining to this sluggish economy, it's this: You, the consumer, are back in charge. For most products and services, "you have…
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- Fake-check scams can be stamped out. At first, Los Angeles resident Wanita Holmes thought it was her lucky day. "You are hereby selected to participate in a paid Consumer Research Program…
- El costoso rescate de las hipotecarias. El rescate federal de las gigantescas empresas hipotecarias Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac podría costar a los contribuyentes hasta 25,000 millones de dólares, dijo ayer…
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- Dinero para veteranos y jubilados. El gobierno lanzó un nuevo paquete informativo del IRS con el propósito de notificar a veteranos y jubilados elegibles que necesitan presentar una declaración de…
- Causantes de los altos precios. El presupuesto familiar cada día rinde menos, debido principalmente al aumento en los precios de la gasolina y los alimentos que componen la canasta familiar…
- Los nuevos clientes de la recesión. Adrienne Radtke piensa seguir desplazándose al trabajo en su bicicleta, incluso si los precios de la gasolina bajan. Steve Pizzini cambió su Cadillac Escalade por…
- Los nuevos clientes de la recesión. Adrienne Radtke piensa seguir desplazándose al trabajo en su bicicleta, incluso si los precios de la gasolina bajan. Steve Pizzini cambió su Cadillac Escalade por…
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- Trying to save by paying docs more. Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around…
- Economy forces consumer evolution. Adrienne Radtke plans to keep riding her bike to work even if gas prices drop. Steve Pizzini got rid of his Cadillac Escalade in favor…
- Regulators thwart 'bear raids' on stocks. An emergency order by Wall Street regulators to combat "bear raids" on vulnerable financial stocks, launched by traders that profit when stocks go down, goes…
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- Americans dig deeper into debt. The collection agencies call at least 20 times a day. For a little quiet, Diane McLeod stashes her phone in the dishwasher. But right up…
- Lawsuit threatens Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Just when you thought that the drive toward better financial accounting couldn't be stopped, a stick may be shoved into the spokes. A decision expected…
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