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The three-figure kitchen makeover

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:57:58 +0000

Living with an undersize, outdated kitchen? whether so, a sledgehammer may feel like the only solution. But these days you’re probably not up for spending the $50,000 or more — possibly much more — it would cost to demolish the space and build a new state-of-the-art room from scratch.

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Salvaged GM dealers in limbo

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:56:23 +0000

The 661 axed auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate aren’t ready to pop the champagne just yet. They’re still waiting to find out about the terms they’ll have to meet to regain their franchises.

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GM offers 661 dealers a reprive

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:46:24 +0000

Shuttered General Motors dealers hoping to get their business back should stay near the phone. General Motors is in the process of calling 661 dealers targeted for shutdown to offer them their franchises back, company executives said Friday afternoon.

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Living on a freelancer’s budget

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:51 +0000

Chris and Janie Peterson have an enviable life. They own a lovely 3½-bedroom ranch house just outside Minneapolis and have work schedules flexible suitable to allow them lots of date with their children, Reece, 10, Cecily, 9, and Georgio, 7.

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Can you learn to be an entrepreneur?

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:27:13 +0000

Gregg Fairbrothers wasn’t born to business. He grew up in an academic household. “I didn’t know a debit from a credit,” he admits. Fairbrothers studied earth sciences at Dartmouth in the ’70s, got his master’s at Rutgers, and eventually moved to Tulsa, where he joined Samson, a gas driller, and earned his chops at the right hand of the company’s “hard-nosed founder.” He picked up an MBA, but that was “just to get the toolkit,” he says. “I learned my business on the job.”

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Financial advice: The yes-man problem

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:20:51 +0000

Experts have faraway counseled against using financial planners who charge commissions, given their incentive to simply sell products that pad their paychecks.

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Hunkering down for rising interest rates

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:15:27 +0000

Question: I’m 65, retired and have about 50% of my portfolio in a bond index fund. I’m thinking of switching to a short-term bond fund. Do you think that’s a good view? –Judy, Flowery Branch, Georgia

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Frothy sales for craft beers

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:48:48 +0000

Turns out booze isn’t recession-proof.

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Foreclosures leveling off

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:59:45 +0000

The national foreclosure rate fell 2% in February from a month earlier, according to an industry report released Thursday, the latest sign that the pace of foreclosures is slowing.

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The wrong way to pick funds

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:17:25 +0000

Photographer friends tell me that whether you’re picking out a point-and-shoot camera you shouldn’t focus much on the megapixels. That measure of a camera’s resolution is hyped by manufacturers, but most cameras on the market give you all the pixels you’ll need.

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Ford shares: Buy or sell?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:18:01 +0000

Ford is back. The automaker recently reported its first annual profit in four years; sales are improving; and investors have pushed up its stock 550% in the past year.

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Green homes face a red light

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:28 +0000

Lots of society, particularly those trying to battle high utility bills, believe in energy-efficient homebuilding.

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12 ways to cut your taxes

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:05:27 +0000

The bright spot of the dreary 2009 economy: savings for everyone.

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Cult soda maker sold off cheap

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:57:34 +0000

Jones Soda, the struggling maker of cult-favorite soft drinks, has agreed to be acquired by rival Reed’s at a deep reduction in a deal worth just shy of $10 million, the companies said Tuesday.

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Next tech goldmine: Medical records

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:51:01 +0000

When Dr. Bradley Block, a family physician in Florida, began to investigate electronic medical record systems for his four-doctor practice, he discovered that many of the largest firms in the field were not particularly interested in his business.

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