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Seniors grow old under debt
Norman Harvel is growing old under a mountain of debt.
At 60, Harvel faces medical and credit card bills topping $80,000. Yet Harvel is unable to work, having been injured at a job site more a decade ago. The former building maintenance worker now...Tags: Mortgages, MetLife Incorporated, Nursing, Consumers, Diabetes
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Don't leave hunger off the global agenda
When the leaders of the globe's biggest economies — the G8 — meet at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains this weekend, they will have a plate full of problems: banking and liquidity and bonds and loan guarantees and such. Somewhere on...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Barack Obama, Natural Disasters, G8, Finance
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The euro has failed
Europe's single currency is a bust. With unemployment reaching depression levels in the Mediterranean states, time has long passed to negotiate an orderly return to national currencies. Euro advocates argue a single currency is essential for creating a...
Tags: Bonds, Rome (Italy), Europe, Unemployment, Republic of Ireland
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Let credit unions do their job
Virtually every current or aspiring officeholder on either side of the aisle extols the virtues of American small businesses as the backbone of the U.S. economy. With that in mind, Sen. Mark Udall, a Colorado Democrat, and Rep. Ed Royce, a California...Tags: Business, Finance, Small Businesses, Mark Udall
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Mobile ad leader Millennial Media goes public
For a day, a Baltimore company had IPO fever.
Fast-growing Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising company, sold shares to the public Thursday, breaking a years-long IPO drought in the city's technology sector. It ended the day valued...Tags: Pandora Media, Inc., eBay Inc., Technology, Apple Inc., Stock Market
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Fewer workers saving for retirement, more under financial stress
Workers' confidence about their retirement is at a near-record low. Fewer are salting away money for their later years, and the majority have less than $25,000 in savings and investments. But their biggest worry isn't retirement. It's job security....Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Finance, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Financial Planning, Social Security
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Constellation $245M settlement for trading is largest ever
The $245 million settlement that Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group agreed to pay is the largest of its kind to resolve allegations of market manipulation with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Details of the settlement emerged Monday, the...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Civil and Public Service, Energy, Job Layoffs, Stock Market
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Morici column oversimplifies President Obama's understanding of the causes of the financial crisis
Peter Morici's piece "Obama's faith in liberalism" (Feb. 21) was written in such a way that the reader could easily have inserted the words liberal or conservative, left or right, etc., in various places in the text and it would still be intelligible....Tags: Barack Obama
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Obama's faith-based liberalism
Rick Santorum's assertion that President Barack Obama's agenda is not about the quality of life or jobs but "some phony ideal. Some phony theology" may not be an appropriate characterization of his religious views. However, it is an accurate description...Tags: Rick Santorum, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Business, Finance
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The Interview: Anita Newcomb, banking consultant
In coming years your community bank may be merging with a rival, closing branches and redesigning the interiors of branches that remain, says Columbia-based banking consultant Anita G. Newcomb. With nearly three decades of experience running banks,...Tags: Mortgages, Business, Business Enterprises, Sales, Prices
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Uncertain year ahead for U.S. stocks
Investors had plenty to keep them jittery in 2011. There were the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, economic woes in Europe, and, here at home, politically tinged fiscal showdowns in Washington over deep government spending cuts.
Still, the stock market...Tags: Barack Obama, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Labor Markets, Federal Reserve
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Perryville has $1.3 million surplus, audit says
A representative with the accounting firm Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra reported that the town of Perryville ran a surplus of $1.3 million for the financial year that ended June 30. Reporting on the town's audit for the spending year, the representative...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Finance, Business Enterprises, Fox Broadcasting Company, Festive Events
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