Obama plan aims for 2.5M new jobs by 2011

U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has announced a plan aimed at creating 2.5 million jobs by January 2011. Read More »

What to Do With $5,000

OK, so you have $5,000 burning a hole in your pocket, and you’re itching to do something with it. Here are some ideas. Read More »

7 Ways dealers make you pay extra

Your goal is to get the best car at the best price. The dealers goal should be to help you do this, but too often its simply to make as much profit as they can. As a smart shopper, you need to know the common strategies that dealerships use to pad their bottom line–from tricky negotiating tactics to trying to sell you unnecessary extras–and how to avoid playing their game Read More »

Your company is bankrupt, you keep $480m. Is that fair?

It was a showdown to cherish for critics of Wall Street’s culture of enrichment. The grim-faced boss of the bankrupt bank Lehman Brothers was left squirming yesterday as a veteran Democrat roasted him over his multimillion-dollar pay. Read More »

Woman Buys House For $1.75 On EBay

Joanne Smith from Chicago now owns an abandoned home in Saginaw, Michigan, and she only paid $1.75 for it on eBay. Read More »

America’s No. 1 Export: Debt

Japan and Germany make cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies the world with socks and toys and flat-screen TVs. What does the United States produce? Lots of stuff, but in recent years this country’s No. 1 export–by far–has been debt. Read More »

Wall Street Swings Day After Meltdown

(CBS/ AP) Wall Street’s numbers swung back and forth Thursday despite a boost from the Federal Reserve which, along with central banks in Europe, Canada and Asia, pumped as much as $180 billion into money markets to combat shock waves from the worst financial upheaval since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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How to make a Million?

I plan to have at least $1 million when I retire. Here’s how I’m going to do it.

A million bucks. That’s how much money I’m going to have when I retire – at the very least. How am I going to do it? Not by flipping real estate, not by playing the lottery and no, not by responding to one of those Make big $$$ at home ads. I’m going to do… Read More »