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Financial Meltdown 101
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Tuesday, January 06
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Meltdown 101: Asset-backed securities comeback?
NEW YORK — Even if you pay every bill on time, the money you dole out each month to credit card, mortgage and car loan companies is probably a bit player in the financial crisis.
That’s because most asset-backed securities — investments derived from pools of debt such as your...
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Meltdown 101: Store bankruptcies can burn shoppers
The lackluster holiday season and deepening recession will take a toll on retailers around the country. Experts are predicting the worst rash of store closings in 35 years. Already, Circuit City is operating under bankruptcy protection. KB Toys, Linens ‘n Things and Mervyns all announced...
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Meltdown 101: Is a strong or weak dollar better?
NEW YORK — Would the U.S. economy be better off if the mighty dollar weren’t so mighty?
The dollar has strengthened against most other major currencies for much of the second half of the year. It recently reversed course, but the big picture remains the same: The U.S. dollar index,...
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Meltdown 101: What happens to unsold merchandise?
NEW YORK — Retailers are expected to have one of the worst holiday seasons in years as consumers cope with job uncertainty and the nerve-racking stock market, which lost $10 trillion in value between October 2007 and November 2008.
Understandably, shoppers have been cautious. If that...
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Meltdown 101: Retailers face weak holiday season
NEW YORK — Retailers are suffering through one of the most difficult holiday seasons in years, slashing prices by 70 and 80 percent and offering other deals in a desperate effort to ring up more sales.
But consumers aren’t exactly bailing them out: Worried about job security and...
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Meltdown 101: Foreign automakers struggle too
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Meltdown 101: Auto bailout winners and losers
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Meltdown 101: Is it time to refinance a mortgage?
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Meltdown 101: Why OPEC moves aren’t hitting prices
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Meltdown 101: Pros and cons of employee buyouts
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Meltdown 101: Treasury auctions, without the gavel
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Meltdown 101: Steering clear of investment fraud
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Meltdown 101: U.S. goods that sell well overseas
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Meltdown 101: Who invests in a zero-interest bond?
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Meltdown 101: How layoffs affect retirement plans
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Meltdown 101: How are jobless benefits funded?
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Meltdown 101: Where are the jobs?
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Meltdown 101: If a carmaker files for bankruptcy
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Meltdown 101: How productive are we as a nation?
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Meltdown 101: How aid to states could lift economy
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Meltdown 101: Taking the pulse of manufacturing
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Meltdown 101: Should consumers drive the economy?
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Meltdown 101: Why Fed can easily offer money help
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Meltdown 101: Why no direct bailout to consumers?
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Meltdown 101: Ideas for the next stimulus plan
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Meltdown 101: What is mark to market accounting?
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Meltdown 101: Some tips on collecting unemployment
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Meltdown 101: How is the CPI calculated, and why?
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Meltdown 101: What's deflation, and why is it bad?
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Meltdown 101: Doling out Wall Street bonuses
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Meltdown 101: Will the world economic summit help?
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Meltdown 101: How'd we get this trade deficit?
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Meltdown 101: The economy and alternative energy
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Meltdown 101: Mortgage help from banks, government
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Meltdown 101: Why did the AIG bailout get bigger?
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Meltdown 101: Why automakers might get bailed out
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Meltdown 101: Why the world’s interest rates vary
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Meltdown 101: A president’s power over the economy
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Meltdown 101: What does the Treasury secretary do?
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Meltdown 101: Vote could remove cloud over markets
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Meltdown 101: How we’ll know we’re in a recession
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Meltdown 101: Measuring the Gross Domestic Product
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Meltdown 101: Why is there a Federal Reserve?
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Meltdown 101: How consumer confidence is measured
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Meltdown 101: Electronic cash flows to 9 big banks
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Meltdown 101: Why the market has circuit breakers
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Meltdown 101: Who owns my mortgage?
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Meltdown 101: Market’s effect on retirement plans
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Meltdown 101: What are interest rate spreads?
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Meltdown 101: What are credit default swaps?
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Meltdown 101: What is market capitulation?
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Meltdown 101: Jobless claims and the economy
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Meltdown 101: What is the beige book?
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Meltdown 101: Will government stake in banks help?
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Meltdown 101: The Dow Jones industrial average
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Meltdown 101: Bankruptcy won't help borrowers much
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Meltdown 101: Investors get back to shorting
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Meltdown 101: How can the Fed's rate cut help?
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