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Trying To Save Money? 5 Billionaires Show You How (Investopedia)
At least once in your life – maybe even once a week or once a day for that matter – you have fantasized about coming into a lot of money. What would you do if you were worth millions or even billions? Believe it or not there are millionaires and billionaires among us who masquerade [...]
Car Dealer Scams And How To Avoid Them (Forbes)
Buyer Beware: Here’s what to watch out for the next time you’re in the showroom.
Of the top 10 industries that received the most consumer complaints last year, three were auto related.
New-car dealers, used-car dealers and auto service and repair shops registered almost 54,000 complaints in North America, according to the Better Business Bureau. They were [...]
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say (New York Times)
With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.
Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined [...]
USA/Gallop Poll: More Now Blame Obama For Economic Woes (USA Today)
Seven months before the midterm elections, Americans seem disaffected about nearly everything political.
A majority disapprove of both political parties, their leaders and most members of Congress, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
Attitudes are reminiscent of those in 1994 and 2006, when control of Congress switched from one party to the other.
The favorable rating for the Democratic [...]
CNN/OPINION: U.S.-Mexico ‘War On Drugs’ A Failure (CNN)
Editor’s note: Charles Bowden is the author of 11 books, including “Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family”; “Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future”; “Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing” and his latest, “Murder City,” about Ciudad Juarez. He is a contributing editor of Esquire and writes for newspapers and magazines such [...]
Unemployment Holds Steady At 9.7%. Temp. Hirings Up March Job Figures (Politico)
President Barack Obama got the first unequivocally good news on the nation’s employment picture Friday, as new government figures showed the nation gained 162,000 jobs in the month of March.
The unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent. That’s the first time the nation has gained, rather than lost, in jobs since late 2007, with the [...]
Transportation Department Sets New Fuel Efficiency Standards For Autos (The Washington Post)
Consumers will pay more for cars upfront but may save money in the long term under new rules finalized Thursday by the Obama administration that will increase fuel efficiency and for the first time set greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks.
The new fuel efficiency standards, issued by the Transportation Department and the [...]
Fed’s Mortage Purchase Program Ends. What Now? (Los Angeles Times)
The government’s $1.25-trillion program to prop up the housing market by purchasing mortgages came to an end Wednesday — in a small, messy room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with four desks and a Nerf basketball hoop.
For the last year, a small team of traders has worked here to buy massive amounts [...]
Obama Now Says “Drill, Baby, Drill! Article And Video Looking At His Stunning Reversal (Huffington Post)
President Obama announced today a new energy policy that will open up waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and part of Alaska to offshore oil and gas drilling.
The new policy represents a reversal not only of the current moratorium on any new oil drilling off most U.S. shores, but also [...]
Obama To O.K. Oil And Gas Drilling Off US Coast. The Dream Of George W. Bush Will Finally Come True (The Washington Post)
The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America’s coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off the Virginia shore, administration officials said Wednesday.
The move, which President Obama will announce Wednesday morning with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at Andrews Air Force Base, ends a long-standing moratorium on oil [...]
