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When Condo Wars Heat Up, Common Sense Can Evaporate
Categorie : Business NewsLet me tell you a story about a game of hardball played over a hot, summery weekend. It happened not at Nationals Park but in a well-kept condominium complex in Reston just a few weeks ago. ...
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Sun Jun 2008
Putting Your Life Policy in Someone Else's Hands
Categorie : Business NewsNeed money? Got a cash-value life insurance policy? Not feeling too well these days? You may be approached to sell your policy to an investor for cash up front. Maybe that's a good idea, but maybe not. You might part with a valuable policy unnecessarily and incur taxes you didn't expect. ...
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Covered for Life -- by a Stranger
Categorie : Business NewsMany seniors sell their life-insurance policies to raise cash. When you (or a family member who may own the policy on your life) sell the insurance, the buyer becomes the owner and beneficiary. On your death, this stranger stops paying premiums and collects the death benefit. ...
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It Pays to Complain
Categorie : Business NewsPart I In this series, Kiplinger's Personal Finance shows you how to avoid the most annoying fees and save thousands of dollars a year. Think you have never been charged a sneaky fee by your bank, broker, credit card issuer or cellphone provider? Then you haven't looked at your bills very closely... ...
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Putting Subprime Suits to Work for You
Categorie : Business NewsLawsuits over the subprime mess and other recent financial calamities will probably drag on for years, making it worth looking for companies that benefit from our love of litigation. ...
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College Aid for Rich Kids?
Categorie : Business NewsQ I recently heard that a cousin's son is attending our state university free, with a state-funded scholarship for brilliant students. His parents are millionaires and could easily pay the boy's college expenses themselves. ...
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At the Pump And Past The Limit
Categorie : Business NewsThe pump slowed and cut off Brendan Baker's gasoline purchase at $74. He returned the nozzle to the pump, swiped his credit card a second time, then put the nozzle back in his 2000 Dodge Ram 1500 and continued fueling. He finished pumping and looked at his two receipts, which totaled $95.23. ...
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Tax Stalemate Creates Friction Between GOP, Business Allies
Categorie : Business NewsSenate Republicans are engaged in an uncomfortable battle with some of their traditional allies in business after twice blocking an effort to extend a variety of tax breaks. ...
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New Credit Worries Cap Bad Week For Markets
Categorie : Business NewsThe specter of mortgage-related losses at the nation's largest financial firms reemerged yesterday, spooking major stock indexes into losses of nearly 2 percent. ...
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Calm in Basra May Offer A Guide for Iraqi Security
Categorie : Business NewsBASRA, Iraq -- The Iraqi army soldiers walked with confidence into this city's notorious Five Miles neighborhood. Shiite militiamen once greeted them with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Now, smiling children waved, and a nearby market pulsed with energy. "Nobody before was able to get.. ...
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Probe Heads to Florida, Mexico
Categorie : Business NewsFederal investigators plan to descend on tomato farms, warehouses and packing sheds in Florida and Mexico today to search for the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has now sickened 552 people in 32 states and the District of Columbia. ...
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McCain Defends Trade Pact
Categorie : Business NewsOTTAWA -- Sen. John McCain traveled to Canada on Friday to offer a vigorous defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as his campaign sought to portray rival Sen. Barack Obama as inconsistent on free trade. ...
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Exits May Hurt Yahoo's Recovery
Categorie : Business NewsYahoo may have fended off a takeover bid by Microsoft, but the prolonged and continuing fight for control of the Internet giant appears to have left it a weaker company. ...
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White House Refuses To Release Documents On Air-Quality Policy
Categorie : Business NewsThe Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escalating a fight over the White House role in U.S. policy on greenhouse-gas emissions and ozone air quality standards. ...
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