| Smaller breaks for wealthy? Try again
March 4, 2009 at 6:28 pm
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|  One of the most controversial provisions in President Obama's proposed budget might have a short shelf life on Capitol Hill. |
| Former Qwest chief goes to prison
March 4, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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| Ford to restructure debt
March 4, 2009 at 5:26 pm
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| Detroit to Obama: Help stop job losses
March 4, 2009 at 5:17 pm
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| Letting the last staffer go
March 4, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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|  Small companies continue to hemorrhage jobs. Employment at companies with fewer than 500 employees dropped by 576,000 positions in February, according to ADP's latest job report, released Wednesday. |
| Feb. consumer bankruptcies up 29%
March 4, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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|  Bankruptcy filings by American consumers surged in February, according to a new report Wednesday. |
| Congress wants AIG answers
March 4, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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|  Lawmakers want to know who's pocketing the money taxpayers have spent to prop up AIG. |
| Wall Street's tax problem
March 4, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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|  Hoping to help plug the gaping hole in the nation's deficit, the Obama administration is looking for a little help from an unlikely source: the financial services industry. |
| Fed: No improvement till late 2009-2010
March 4, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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| Can I make my mortgage affordable?
March 4, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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|  We now know the details of President Obama's plan to stabilize the housing market and keep millions of Americans in their homes. |
| Commercial real estate may strain banks
March 4, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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| China to the rescue
March 4, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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| Investors have largely panned the stimulus package that President Obama signed into law last month. But stimulus in China? Now that's a different story. |
| Stanford Financial: How to buy a reputation
March 4, 2009 at 12:54 pm
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| The life of Sir Allen Stanford, the cricket and polo-loving financier who is being investigated for a potential Ponzi scheme, is a case study in how to buy respectability and influence. |
| Don't shut foreign tech workers out
March 4, 2009 at 11:58 am
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| Obama vows to change government contracting
March 4, 2009 at 11:51 am
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|  President Obama signed a memorandum Wednesday designed to save the federal government $40 billion a year by overhauling what Obama calls the "broken system of government contracting." |
| Entrepreneurs' lesson #1: Do the math
March 4, 2009 at 11:44 am
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|  Every business goes through three stages: start up, throw up and grow up. Right now, with the economy as bad as I've seen it, many entrepreneurs in this country are experiencing stage two. |
| Toll Brothers: Bulls vs. Bears
March 4, 2009 at 11:43 am
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|  As the spring buying season begins, luxury homebuilders are not anticipating a fresh start. |
| Mortgage help: Do you qualify?
March 4, 2009 at 11:36 am
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|  Details on President Obama's eagerly anticipated foreclosure prevention program were released on Wednesday. It targets 9 million borrowers for help - are you one of them? |
| Tiger's dream course
March 4, 2009 at 11:35 am
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|  From the helicopter, a blanket of trees spreads out below me, and in the distance, the town of Asheville is barely visible. The chopper banks right, and out the window I can see that swaths of foliage have been cut away to form serpentine shapes, barely identifiable as fairways from 1,000 feet above. |
| Panel: Finance needs regulator, but who?
March 4, 2009 at 11:29 am
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| Musician gets high court OK to sue Wyeth
March 4, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  A Vermont musician who lost an arm to gangrene after being given a common prescription medication won the right to collect nearly $7 million when the Supreme Court ruled in her favor Wednesday. |
| Stocks jump up from 12-year lows
March 4, 2009 at 11:20 am
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|  Wall Street rallied Wednesday amid signs on improvement in China's economy and as federal officials unveiled details of President Obama's $75 billion foreclosure prevention plan. |
| Private-sector payrolls lose 697,000 jobs
March 4, 2009 at 11:13 am
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|  The private sector lost nearly 700,000 jobs in February, according to a report from payroll-processing company Automatic Data Processing released Wednesday, but a separate report showed that employers announced fewer job cuts last month. | |
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The Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program is open for business.
Service sector activity worsened in February, remaining weak amid an economy in recession, a purchasing managers' group said Wednesday.
Oil prices remained higher Wednesday as a government report that supplies of crude oil fell unexpectedly last week added to indications of improvement in China's economy.
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Independent financial advisors see a light - however dim - at the end of the current recession tunnel, according to a new survey.
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Treasurys fell Wednesday as stock prices rose overseas and investors remain concerned about record amounts of supply coming to the market.
So you want to be an entrepreneur? Today the first step is a solid business plan. Tomorrow it could be a bottle of pills. Cambridge University scientists made headlines last November by suggesting that an "entrepreneur drug" might someday replicate the brain chemistry seen in successful small business owners. Fortune Small Business checked in with Barbara Sahakian, Ph.D., who led the research, to hear her vision of the future.
The dramatic decline in the housing market has hit Americans hard: 20% of people with mortgages owe more than their home is worth, according to a report released Wednesday.
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