new loan blog

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Car Crashes Cost $160 Billion per Year

The damage is equal to $1,000 for every American.

The Anti-Obama Playbook [Cartoon]

Any more tips to add to this 2008 playbook? I'm sure the Obama haters out there would know a few more sneaky tactics.

Bush: Americans ‘Ought To Say Thank You’ To Telecoms

Bush is implying that Americans who oppose telecom immunity are unpatriotic. But the American people don’t owe the telecoms any gratitude. These corporations chose to break the law and profited greatly from doing so.

The World's Most Expensive Rental Markets

Thinking of renting a home overseas? These prices might force you to reconsider.

Clinton Is Urged to Drop Out if She Loses on Tuesday

Some top Democrats are putting pressure on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to bow out unless she scores clear victories in the crucial big-state primary contests. “I just think that D-Day is Tuesday,” said Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a former Democratic presidential candidate who has yet to throw his support behind either candidate.

Fists Tighten Around Expense Accounts

Business travelers are getting a universal message: Trim expenses.

High-Speed Rail Coming to America...South America

High-speed rail is finally coming to America. However it's Argentina and not the United States that will be the first "New World" country to build a high-speed rail system and join the modern age of transportation.

16 Ways to Save $100

#13 - "Skip the service contract." - Extended warranties on electronics are rarely a good deal. According to Tom Garman, a Virginia Tech professor of consumer affairs, most product breakdowns occur in the first year and are covered by the manufacturer's warranty...

Obama: Clinton didn't have the "experience" to read the NIE

She didn’t read the National Intelligence Estimate, Jay Rockefeller read it, but she didn’t read it. I don’t know what all that experience got her because in my experience if you have a National Intelligence Estimate and the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says, 'You should read this, this is why I’m voting against the war.'

Obama cabinet would include Chuck Hagel as SecDef

Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war, and Richard Lugar, leader of the Republicans on the Senate foreign relations committee.

High Court Says Suing Your 401(k) Is OK

The Supreme Court is allowing retirement plan participants to sue over losses.

Alaska Is Bigger Than I Thought

Bush's stay there this past weekend with the the Danish prime minister marked Bush’s 70th visit as president. President Ronald Reagan, one of the modern presidency’s most “famous vacationer[s],” spent just 335 days at his ranch in Santa Barbara, CA.

Show Some Love Diggers: Wikileaks is Back Online!

A federal judge on Friday allowed whistle-blower site WikiLeaks to resume operation in the United States.

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.

America's Rogue 'French' Trader

Friends say the trader at the center of a $141M scandal is a smart, kind man.

Texas caucus hardball

The Dallas Morning News gets hold of Clinton caucus "training materials," in which supporters are instructed to fight for procedural control of caucuses."The materials say in part, 'DO NOT allow the supporter of another candidate to serve in leadership roles.'"

Love can hurt — your bank account

From the first date until the time you finally head down the aisle, you can easily have spent more than $40,000 on vacations, jewelry, wedding expenses, and meals out, according to BusinessWeek's calculations .

Obama wins on civil liberties

NY Times editorial says our privacy rights not as big a priority for Clinton

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Surprise! "Iran" Nuke Laptop Data Likely Came From Israel

Tehran has denounced the documents on which the charges are based as fabrications provided by the MEK, and has demanded copies of the documents to analyse, but the United States had refused to do so. There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad.

Answer Desk: A hostile takeover playbook

If Microsoft has the cash to buy rival Yahoo, why can’t it just call up a stock broker and? buy? all of Yahoo's stock? The Answer Desk, by msnbc.com's John W. Schoen.

Trading Scandal Hits U.S.

MF Global Ltd. blames Memphis employee for $141M losses in wheat trades.

Sharper Image : The Future Was Then

For all of its flaws as a business, nobody can accuse the Sharper Image of over-promising. Then the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced it would close 90 of its roughly 180 stores "as soon as possible." ...What are we losing? A world of luminescent safety leashes, hideaway gyms, telescoping ladders --

Not lovin' it any more - McDonald's ad guru kills himself

Ad exec Paul Tilley apparently jumped from an upper floor of the Fairmont Chicago Hotel Friday, and his death was ruled a suicide by the Cook County medical examiner's office. In his career, he led creative teams that came up with Dell's "Dude, You're Gettin' a Dell" campaign and advertising in McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" effort. RIP

Prince Harry fighting Taleban, MoD says

Despite earlier not being sent to Iraq - and getting a lot of flak for it, prince Harry has been reported to have been on the front line in Afganistan