NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- As consumers get ready for the holiday season with a struggling U.S. economy hanging over their heads and memories of $4 gas still fresh, buying a car isn't necessarily going to be a priority. Consumers have mortgages and ...
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Dear Liz: In our divorce, my ex was awarded the car but was supposed to make the payments. She is always behind, and since my name is on the car loan my credit scores remain low. Is there any way to get my name off the loan? Answer: Typically no, at ...
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IN THE dark hours after hearing 52,000 colleagues were about to lose their jobs last week, Citigroup traders awaited the axe with a little of the black humour Wall Street is famous for. Bankers joked that Somali pirates were offering 1 cent a share ...
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After World War I, H.G. Wells wrote that a race was on between morality and destruction. Humanity had to abandon its warlike ways, Wells said, or technology would decimate it. Economic writing, however, conveyed a completely different world. Here ...
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U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson. "I don't think providing more leverage to consumers is best for our economy in the long-term," says Adam Lerrick, who is a visiting scholar the conservative-leaning Washington-based think tank American ...
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Origin: Genworth Financial Inc. was created in May 2004 when General Electric Co. spun off its Richmond-based insurance company, GE Financial Assurance Holdings Inc. Heritage: GE Financial Assurance had acquired two Virginia insurance companies in ...
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Enda Kenny is just beginning his speech to the 2008 Party Conference. The conference, who's theme is "Fairness For All" is being attended by approximately 1200 people. Enda Kenny criticises the government's failure to plan for the future saying that ...
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