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Maryland finished the fiscal year with $990 million in unspent funds, showing an end-of-year surplus that was about 50 percent higher than expected, according to a memo obtained by The Sun. -
- The silver lining in all this economic upheaval lately — low interest rates on consumer borrowing.
- U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast in July and wages climbed.
- Black & Decker Inc. has settled with the federal government to pay $960,000 in order to end the inquiry into whether the company did not report safety problems with a weed whacker it sold, according to a statement Wednesday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- State officials and theater operator pin hopes on ambitious financing plan
- The financial crisis and economic recession may not be over for most people, but last year brought an embarrassment of riches for chief executives
- The poultry industry is the largest piece of a key sector of the local economy — agriculture — and its reach is broad: from the truckers who move product and the many farmers who grow corn for chicken feed to the corner stores and other businesses that rely on customers' income.
- Republicans want a double-dip recession so they can take over the government
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