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The Paul Ryan budget: your guide to what's in it
Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, is best known for drawing up a series of spending-and-tax plans meant to challenge the Obama administration's policies from the right. But it's been some time since his latest budget, which Mr. Ryan terms a "path to prosperity," was released. Here's a primer on what's in it.
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What can be done to create jobs? Six leading ideas.
The job market has shown some very welcome signs of improvement lately, but it still has a long way to go before approaching something Americans would call normal. Here’s a look at some of the proposed solutions out there.
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How the tea party can 'agree' with Occupy movement's demands
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Six ways the rich really do get richer
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Getting bin Laden and five other boosts to Obama's reelection bid
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Credit scores will get more personal
Credit scores will include estimates of annual income. FICO is developing separate credit scores to incorporate any payday loans, evictions, and child support payments.
10/21/2011 12:15 am -
The Circle Bastiat Student loan debt: 'Occupy' movement's weakest talking point
The Occupy Wall Street movement is complex and raises many legitimate issues. Student loan debt is not one of them.
10/18/2011 05:00 pm -
Fixed mortgage rates rise above 4 percent
Fixed mortgage rates briefly dipped below 4 percent to historic lows. But 30-year fixed mortgage rates now average 4.12 percent.
10/13/2011 03:21 pm -
Homeownership: biggest fall since Depression
Homeownership rate falls from 66.2 percent to 65.1 percent in the past decade. Homeownership gap between whites and blacks is biggest since 1960.
10/09/2011 08:39 pm -
The New Economy 30-year mortgages fall below 4 percent. Time to refinance?
Although 30-year mortgages are at historic lows, some economists say rates on 30-year mortgages could fall further. So should you wait before refinancing?
10/06/2011 04:48 pm -
Mortgage rates now lowest in 60 years
Mortgage rates for a fixed 30-year home loan average fall to 4.09 percent. But few homeowners taking advantage of historically low mortgage rates.
09/16/2011 09:25 am -
House leader Eric Cantor blasts Obama's jobs bill (video)
President Obama's jobs proposal Thursday night was already meeting resistance from House majority leader Eric Cantor. And, he told DCDecoder that he likes Joe Biden's negotiating style more than Obama's.
09/09/2011 12:14 pm -
Monitor Breakfast GOP's Eric Cantor: Three ways we can work with Obama on jobs
Ahead of President Obama's jobs speech, House majority leader Eric Cantor sees places for potential compromise. But he hopes Obama won't try to dictate solutions to the GOP.
09/08/2011 04:01 pm -
The Reformed Broker Preparing for a bad September
Ways to reduce your risk in a dangerous financial month
09/06/2011 07:00 pm -
Stocks fall as Europe's debt worries deepen
The Dow fell 110.96 points to 11,139.30 in its worst start to September since 2002
09/06/2011 06:26 pm -
Global markets drop sharply on US, Europe outlook
Global markets reflect worry about rising interest rates for eurozone's weakest nations and possibility of a US recession. Among global markets to tumble most: Germany, down 5.3 percent and France, down 4.7 percent.
09/05/2011 09:15 pm -
Faulty mortgage loans catch up with 17 big banks
Faulty mortgage loans were a major contributor to the recession and now a US regulator is suing 17 big banks for their role in those faulty loans.
09/03/2011 01:09 am -
US sues biggest banks over risky mortgages
Government lawsuit claims 17 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and JP Morgan, misrepresented the value of $196 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities when it sold them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
09/02/2011 07:28 pm -
Fixed-rate mortgages edge up, but still low
Fixed-rate mortgages now average 4.22 percent for 30-year loan; 3.44 percent for 15-year loan. But fixed-rate mortgages still near 40-year lows.
08/26/2011 08:55 am -
Rating falls, markets plunge, critics rage. But tea party isn't blinking.
Tea party lawmakers say the S&P's downgrade of the US credit rating and the markets' convulsive reaction on Monday is merely confirmation that they had been right all along.
08/08/2011 09:59 pm -
Dow skids 600, worst day since credit crisis
The Dow closed down 634 points, the S&P 500 lost 79 points, and the Nasdaq ended 174 points lower. For every stock that rose at the New York Stock Exchange, more than 69 fell.
08/08/2011 05:42 pm -
Mortgage rates at record lows. Will that finally lift US housing market?
Record-low interest rates on mortgages are one outcome of debt-ceiling deal. But they are just one piece of recovery for the housing market, which is beset by falling prices and high jobless rates.
08/04/2011 05:06 pm -
The New Economy US debt deal kicks spending problems down the ... cul-de-sac
Debt deal includes no meaningful spending reductions, which signals beginning of the end for US as the world's sole economic superpower.
08/01/2011 10:59 am -
Can the Treasury Department really run out of money?
Probably not, because the Federal Reserve would probably not bounce a check from Treasury. But that might violate the debt ceiling.
07/28/2011 09:49 am -
On the Economy Government holds too many distressed, foreclosed homes. Rent 'em!
If Fannie Mae and other agencies sold their more than 1 million distressed or foreclosed homes, it would glut the market. But it could rent them.
06/26/2011 07:00 am -
The Simple Dollar Lost $30,000 in stock market. Should I reinvest?
First foray into stock market led to a 90 percent loss. What's a better way to invest in the stock market? Question No. 1 in this reader mailbag.
06/25/2011 03:00 pm -
Fixed mortgage rates drop for 8th straight week
Fixed mortgage rates fall, but even so, the housing market isn't improving. Fixed mortgage rates for 30-year loans fell to 4.49 percent and the average rate for a 15-year loan fell to 3.68 percent.
06/10/2011 12:32 pm -
The Vote Tim Pawlenty's plan to revive the US economy: the 'Google Test'
Pawlenty offered a new spin on the classic spending-cuts idea: If Google can identify a private-sector provider of any good or service, the government should get out of that business. By invoking Google, he hopes to snatch media attention from the antics of Trump, Palin, and Weiner.
06/07/2011 07:05 pm -
Paper Economy Home prices slip in March
The latest monthly house price index shows that prices fell a quarter of a percent since February, which puts them about 6 percent lower than a year ago
05/25/2011 02:26 pm -
The Daily Reckoning The pain of restoring investor confidence
Americans and Europeans have bailed out banks, run public deficits, and added to debts. What will it take to restore investor confidence?
05/25/2011 11:55 am
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