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| | BusinessWeek [subscribe] | » Survey Says Bigger Downpayments Prevent Foreclosures
ING Direct, the discount stock broker best known for its bright orange logo and branches that look like sandwich shops, is releasing a survey on people?s attitudes toward home ownership and mortgages on July 7.
Thankfully, two thirds of the 2,100 people surveyed still belie...
» China National Petroleum Corp in $17 Billion Argentina Oil Bid
More news out showing China is serious about picking up overseas assets to meet its surging energy and resource needs. This time, a report published yesterday in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, says that China National Petroleum Corp, China’s largest oil and gas company, want...
» America's Best Affordable Places to Retire
More » Business Exchange: Airline Industry » Rethinking Retirement » Microsoft Opens Big Dublin Data Center » Guest blogger! » GM's 2010 Chevrolet Camaro breaks through
| | Economist [subscribe] | » Evolution and climate change: Survival of the less fit
The mystery of Scotland’s shrinking sheep may have been solved ON THE remote island of Hirta, in the St Kilda archipelago beyond the Outer Hebrides, live hundreds of wild Soay sheep. Over the past 20 years biologists studying this primitive breed, which has not changed much since the ...
» Unemployment insurance: More money, more problems
A few Republicans are holding out against more unemployment insurance MARK SANFORD, the Republican governor of South Carolina, is a strict fiscal disciplinarian. When Washington announced its economic stimulus plans last year, he opposed the whole idea. At the time his state’s unemplo...
» High-net-worth individuals
The wealth of the world’s high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) fell by almost a fifth last year to $33 trillion, according to the 2009 World Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. A HNWI has at least $1m of assets besides his main home, its contents and collectable items. In 2008 the...
More » Global mergers and acquisitions » Reforming finance: the EU's proposals: Divided by a common market » House prices and the wealth effect: Home discomforts » Bernard Madoff: The Madoff affair » Corporate bankruptcies in America: The boom in busts
| | Fast Company [subscribe] | » Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils 14 Home Designs for New Orleans
Pitt's foundation, Make it Right, eventually hopes to build 150 houses in the Ninth Ward--completely remaking the blighted neighborhood. Brad Pitt is more than just a voracious consumer of design--he is, perhaps, one of design's greatest philanthropists. The proof is his two-year long ef...
» Sony's Jack Tretton Talks PlayStation 3 and the 10-Year Console Cycle
Fast Company sat down with the President of Sony Computer Entertainment America recently to discuss his commitment to the PS3's 10-year life-cycle despite the recession, the industry's fixation on hardware price cuts, and the future of downloadable games. How do you measure the effectiv...
» Ever Wanted to Snuggle Inside a Bird's Nest? Now's Your Chance
South African designers weave a tree house for adults.
Maybe we're crazy, but we've always wondered what life as a little baby bird would be like, all safe and cozy in your handmade nest. Which makes this new "organic lounger" designed by Animal Farm, a Cape Town design firm, so ...
More » The Insanely Byzantine Radio Spectrum Map [Graphic] » In-Hohm Advertising: Microsoft's Banking on Ad Revenue From its PowerMeter Competitor » Run for Your Life: The Pentagon's Robotic Hummingbird Takes Flight » Will "Active Packaging" Undermine Apple's Quest for Sustainability? » No, It's Not an Urban Myth: Video of Heinz Beanzawave Surfaces
| | Forbes [subscribe] | » U.K. Embassy Staff In Iran To Be Tried A top Iranian cleric said some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial.
» Will Cash For Clunkers Scheme Work? It could provide a temporary boost to auto sector, but won't likely benefit the Big Three.
» Tough Times For Mexican Immigrants Hurt disproportionately by job losses, remittances home are plunging.
More » China In Pakistan » Teenage Jobs Wasteland » Marketing Wales » China Beckons Oversees Citizens Home » Caution Reigns In Asia
| | Inc [subscribe] | » More Features: Business Advice from Top Chefs Top restaurant owners, including star chef Tom Colicchio talk about making a small business work in their industry.
» A Start-up Takes on Wal-Mart
Alice.com, which launched recently, is the fourth Internet start-up from co-founders Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire and, according to Wiegand, "our biggest swing of the bat." Can the partners, who sold their last business to Microsoft, disrupt the stolid consumer-products industry? | | Kiplinger [subscribe] | » QUIZ: Is it Worth It? From warehouse clubs to home and car maintenance, we present you with ten situations for you to decide. Is it worth the cost? Or should you save your money?
» 7 Ways Your Money Will Never Be the Same Don't expect the economy to "get back on track." It's a new track, folks, and here's how to navigate it.
» Industry Ready to Invest in Energy Storage Potential savings for businesses and consumers are worth billions of dollars.
More » Taming Executive Pay Will Be up to Shareholders » How We Can Escape This Mess » Resist the Urge to Cash Out » What GM’s Bankruptcy Means to Consumers » What General Motors' Bankruptcy Means to Investors
| | SmartMoney [subscribe] | » One-Day Wonder: Freaky Friday The 13th lived up to its mischievous reputation as several Nasdaq stocks surged as much as 9,000% due to a technical glitch.
» Techsmart: Think Outside the Xbox Microsoft's next-generation game console does a whole lot more than play videogames.
» Ahead of the Curve: The Sky Isn't Falling Despite doomsday scenarios, retiring baby boomers cashing in their portfolios won't cripple the stock market.
More » Fund Screen: Warm Fuzzy Investing » Homing In: Fast Job-Growth Markets » Breaking News: Techs Lead, Commodities Bleed » Stock Screen: You Again? » Stock Screen: The SmartMoney.com Efficiency Experts Screen
| | Wired [subscribe] | » Peak Oil: Bugatti Makes a Car for the Ages Bugatti's convertible is the pinnacle of internal-combustion car tech -- one that will probably never be surpassed with the auto industry's focus shifting to electric vehicles. Here's what it's like to drive it.
» Keeping It Reel — Five Pieces for Your Must-Have Angling Kit Fly fishers dread the question: "Catch anything today?" Dazzling your interrogators with cool gear might let you dodge the question. No gadget can improve your cast, but tech can surely enhance life on the water.
» July 4, 1776: Preserving the Declaration It's one thing to declare independence, but quite another to preserve the aging document from the ravages of time.
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