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Consumer complaints rise as protection resources dwindle
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by MICHELLE SINGLETARY
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State and local consumer-protection agencies across the country should pool their limited resources and start an advertising campaign called "Gotcha."
Consumer Information - Home - Advocacy and Protection - United States - Governmental Help
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CEO's booze-fueled blunder puts new hire in tough spot
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post
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Adapted from a recent online discussion. Harassed (?) by CEO: I just started a job that I love. A few weeks ago, I was at a conference, where I was approached by our CEO as I was walking back to my hotel room late at night. He was extremely drunk; I was not. The short version is that he asked me to...
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Two economists say in new paper that TARP worked
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Ezra Klein
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TARP is horribly unpopular. The stimulus is pretty unpopular. But does that mean they were bad policies? Not according to a new paper by Mark Zandi, Moody's chief economist and a former adviser to both the McCain and Obama campaigns, and Alan Blinder, a Princeton economist who has served as vice...
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Insurers hold billions in federal death benefits in unprotected accounts
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by David Evans
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The package arrived at Cindy Lohman's home in Great Mills, just two weeks after she learned that her son, Ryan P. Baumann, a 24-year-old Army sergeant, had been killed by a bomb in Afghanistan. It was a thick, 9-by-12-inch envelope from Prudential Financial, which handles life insurance for the...
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Small businesses: Measuring their power and their problems
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Edmund L. Andrews
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He may be locked in combat with Wall Street and the Business Roundtable, but President Obama spoke nostalgically last week about the virtues of small business.
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Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT
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Umbrella-liability policy can protect finances from costly lawsuits
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Kimberly Lankford
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Q We have homeowners and auto insurance with $300,000 in liability coverage, but someone suggested that we get a $1 million personal-liability umbrella policy. Why would we need this much coverage ?
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Interview with Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund manager Jeff Tillinghast
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Manuel Schiffres
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Joel Tillinghast is arguably the least-celebrated superstar in the fund business. Fidelity Low-Priced Stock, which he has run since December 1989, is the third-best-performing fund over the past 20 years (with an annualized return through May 31 of 14 percent). The unusual fund, which mainly buys...
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Everyday lithium batteries at center of debate about cargo handling
Posted: July 31st, 2010, 10:44pm EDT by Jia Lynn Yang
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The lithium-ion battery quietly fuels modern life. It powers our iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys and laptops. It's in the next round of electric cars coming to market this year.
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Maxine Waters will go to trial rather than settling potential ethics charges
Posted: July 31st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Ben Pershing and Paul Kane
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has decided against settling potential House ethics charges for her role in helping to steer federal funds to a bank, choosing instead to proceed to a trial, a source familiar with the process said Friday night.