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- In Your Garage Today, Collector's Item Tomorrow
- Collector car insurer McKeel Hagerty predicts that these current models will be hot auction items in decades to come. Two-seat sports cars always have some collectible potential. For starters, they're just plain fun. Saturn Sky The Saturn...
- Author:Peter Valdes-DapenaDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Financial Turmoil Likely to Continue
- After Subprime Woes, Uncertainty Around Bond Insurers Could Be Next Storm NEW YORK (AP) -- As bad news about the financial system piles up, trust -- the pillar of investing -- is being buried. The most recent fears are tied to the potential failure...
- Author:Stephen Bernard & Dan SeymourDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Kansas Mulls Hiking Cigarette Tax
- Financial Woes May Force Kansas to Increase Cigarette Tax FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- One of the nation's leading tobacco-producing states may increase taxes on cigarettes for the second time in three years to offset a revenue shortfall that's causing wi...
- Author:Roger AlfordDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- 'Arthur' Creator Has A Nose For Children's Fantasy
- It seemed like Marc Brown just couldn't keep it together. He'd tried a series of jobs, from short-order cook to chicken farmer. None of them worked. Each time, he tried to reach for his big opportunity. It just kept eluding him. As art director for...
- Author:Paul KatzeffDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- New subprime bailout on the table
- A proposal to bail out subprime mortgage borrowers who are at risk of foreclosure was floated at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday. Senator Chris Dodd, the committee chair, said he is working to create a Home Ownership Preservation Corpora...
- Author:Les ChristieDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- States mount largest effort in 15 years to expand health coverage
- Largest number of state coverage expansions in 15 years: report SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Emboldened by ambitious reforms in Massachusetts and Vermont and spurred by rising voter anxiety, many states are expanding health coverage for their resi...
- Author:Kristen GerencherDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- House Approves Economic Recovery Plan
- House Passes Economic Recovery Package WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House, seizing a rare moment of bipartisanship to respond to the economy's slump, overwhelmingly passed a $146 billion aid package Tuesday that would speed rebates of $600-$1,200 to most...
- Author:Julie Hirschfeld DavisDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Does Your Child Suffer From Afluenza?
- Flu season has arrived, but some social scientists worry about another virus that's usually at its height between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's called affluenza. Authorities describe affluenza as an unearned feeling of entitlement for luxuries, a...
- Author:Brigitte YuilleDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Going broke: budgeting basics for kids - and parents
- Kerri and Mike Miller have a spending problem. Three of them, in fact. There's 12-year-old Kate, a seventh-grader who covets a pair of $160 boots, prefers clothes from American Eagle rather than Target and recently got a $300 cell phone. There's ni...
- Author:Kate AshfordDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- In Praise of Mean Parenting
- Let's hear it for mean parents: * Des Moines mother Jane Hambleton recently made headlines by selling her teenage son's car after she found alcohol under the front seat. "Totally uncool parents, who obviously don't love teena...
- Author:Janet BodnarDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Money Magazine: What you owe your kids
- At this point in their lives, Tony Carideo, 57, and his wife Linda, 56, of Bloomington, Minn., thought the financial load of raising their four kids would have become considerably lighter. But so far they haven't noticed much extra cash sloshing arou...
- Author:Marlys HarrisDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Eight Ways to Save on Engagement Rings
- Deciding to get married is the easy part — at least, compared with the expense and effort that shopping for the engagement ring entails. These sparkly manifestations of committed relationships will set shoppers back an average of $5,795 this y...
- Author:Kelli B. GrantDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- How to Win Your Next Money Fight
- It seems fitting to begin an article about money quarrels -- during Valentine's Day week, no less -- with a quote from the great 18th-century Romantic poet William Blake, who wrote in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (ahem), "Without...
- Author:Dayana YochimDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Check Out These Luxury Hotels' Debuts
- New hotels can be so exciting -- ultramodern, everything in great condition, and you're one of the first (maybe even the first) to stay in that room. Here's a look at some of the hotels opening soon around the U.S. Cavallo Point -- San Francisco, Cal...
- Author:Michael MartinDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Next Car Debate: Total Miles Driven
- I lead a double life. Monday through Wednesday, I get to work by walking a block and a half from a high-rise apartment building to a stop on Washington, D.C.'s Metro subway. I emerge three stops later a half block from my office. My commute is prett...
- Author:Joseph B. WhiteDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
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