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King Larry: The story of a business monster

February 4th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Economics, News, Personal Finance

Growing up fatherless on a peach farm in California, Larry Hillblom told friends he wanted to be like Howard Hughes some day. He came closer than anyone could have expected. Hillblom went into business, amassed a huge fortune, acquired an airline, built a secretive empire, sustained hideous injuries in a plane crash, and developed into a full-blown germaphobe eccentric.

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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Market Dichotomy

February 1st, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in News

Search Jim Cramer’s Mad Money trading recommendations using our exclusive Mad Money Stock Screener and watch Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Post Game video exclusively on TheStreet.com. NEW YORK — “There’s a dichotomy in the market of 2012,” Jim Cramer told his “Mad Money” TV show viewers Tuesday. …

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Celebrities Help Tweet a Story for Charity

February 1st, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Investing

Ambitious story from The 3hundredand65 Project attracts celebrity writers and over 200 volunteer writers in just one month, raising money for The Teenage Cancer Trust.Manchester, UK 1 February 2012 What began as a last minute idea, late on New Year’s Eve has grown into a Twitter craze known as 3hundredand65. …

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That Missing $1.2 Billion in MF Global Money Is Probably Gone for Good

February 1st, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Economics, Investing

It’s always a bad sign for those still waiting to get their MF Global money to wake up to a front-page Wall Street Journal story saying that “officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered.”

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Teach Your Child About Money – Finance News

January 29th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in News, Personal Finance

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Euro Zone Money Supply Offers Grim News

January 29th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in News, Personal Finance

The latest euro-zone money supply numbers make for grim reading.

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Euro Zone Money Supply Offers Grim News

Local road money: The rest of the story

January 29th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Economics, Investing, News

SHEFFIELD NELSON: His severance tax petition holds better promise for local roads.

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Skippable story of a skip tracer

January 29th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Investing, Personal Finance

On today’s edition of “Smart Women, Stupid Choices” – Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic “comedies” pairing her with increasingly bland leading men.

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'Mad Money' Recap: 5 Big Themes for 2012

January 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Economics, News

Search Jim Cramer’s Mad Money trading recommendations using our exclusive Mad Money Stock Screener and watch Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Post Game video exclusively on TheStreet.com. NEW YORK — “Stick with the five big themes of 2012,” Jim Cramer announced to his “Mad Money” TV show viewers on Tuesday, as he told investors that the new year has given them multiple ways to win

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Money talk dominating Romney, Gingrich contest

January 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Investing, News

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich’s fight for Florida and the states beyond stayed at a high boil Tuesday as Romney released tax returns showing annual income topping $20 million — including a now-closed Swiss bank account — and Gingrich insisted his high-paid consulting work for a mortgage giant that contributed to the housing crisis didn’t include lobbying.

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