Finance
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Economics of childcare slams younger households
Aug 16, 2015 7:38 am - WASHINGTON -- It's not the cost of diapers or even future college tuition that's rattling Amber Sparks. "We basically had to remake our entire budget around daycare," sa...
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Speed of stock reversals can breed nausea
Aug 16, 2015 7:36 am - NEW YORK - The time it takes to win and lose money in the U.S. stock market has gotten noticeably shorter of late. Losses spurred by China's currency devaluation sent th...
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You might want to ditch the checking account you opened in high school
Aug 16, 2015 7:32 am - Consumers are creatures of habit -- and that laziness has a cost. It's not unusual for people to procrastinate financial actions until the last possible moment. And once...
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5 financial rules every college student should live by
Aug 16, 2015 7:31 am - It's time to stuff your suitcases full of all your earthly belongings and go shopping for a hoodie bearing some fearsome mascot. You're headed off to college, perhaps th...
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Constable: $1 billion is yours - but only to see - at show in RosemontAug 12, 2015 5:30 am - To reach the treasure, our guide winds a twisty path through the rows and rows of antique coins and rare currency. After all, a normal guy might suffer a case of the fin...
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From ghosts to old dogs: The weird world of home-sale clauses
Aug 09, 2015 7:41 am - Maybe some Virginia lawmakers have watched too many episodes of "Breaking Bad." Home buyers in Virginia now have one more request they can make of sellers: to disclose w...
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A 'Star Trek' economy: Do we want an economic utopia?
Aug 09, 2015 7:38 am - I grew up watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (easily the best of the Star Trek shows). There's one big, obvious thing missing from the future society depicted in ...
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What raising the minimum wage to $15 would mean in every state
Aug 09, 2015 7:34 am - WASHINGTON - Look around the country, and you'll find the same impassioned argument about pay for low-wage workers is taking place. The $15 minimum wage was approved in ...
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New SEC rule could reveal the huge gap between CEO pay and worker payAug 08, 2015 1:00 am - Thousands of public U.S. companies will soon likely be forced to share a number many would rather keep under wraps: How much more their chief executives make than their ...
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Great Lakes Credit Union merges with Bell West Community Credit UnionAug 06, 2015 1:00 am - BANNOCKBURN - Great Lakes Credit Union announced it has merged with Bell West Community Credit Union. Terms of the merger were not announced. The Bell West branch wi...