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Consider student loans before refinancing home (The Palm Beach Post)
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:11:50 GMT
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Dear Liz: We owe $127,000 on a home that's currently worth more than $300,000. We have a daughter entering college in fall 2010. Her first year will be paid through an education account, her second through some of our savings. Years 3 and 4 are less clear, but we are certain we want to pay for the rest of her education. Should we refinance our home now, before its value falls further, and take ...
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College loan sources drying up, say Franklin County area institutions (Chambersburg Public Opinion)
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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:41 GMT
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Local colleges and universities are confident their students will be able to afford their education for the coming semester, but next fall could be sticky.
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Hanoi tightens control on slaughtering of poultry and cattle (Vietnam Net)
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:39:25 GMT
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The Hanoi City Veterinary Department has taken comprehensive measures to inspect the slaughtering and transport of poultry and cattle in order to ensure food hygiene and safety during the upcoming lunar New Year Festival (Tet).
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Recession Biting Artists in the (Canv)Ass (Chicagoist)
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:00:20 GMT
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In these recessionary times, galleries are closing down, auction houses are getting millions less than normal in sales for even big-name masterpieces, and starving artists are starving even more. Recently we asked a few dozen artists and gallerists how they were surviving Great Depression II: The Internet Edition. Here's what they told us: Kirby Kerr, Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & ...
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Eastday (Eastday.com)
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:02:32 GMT
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SHANGHAI'S 577,502 impoverished university students received subsidies totaling 795 million yuan (US$116.5 million) in 2008.
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Looking Ahead to the New Year (Gotham Gazette)
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:11:01 GMT
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Who would have guessed that our former governor would be caught up in a prostitution scandal or that Wall Street would have crumbled so dramatically? The prominent New Yorkers we asked to predict what 2008 would bring certainly didn't.
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Don't risk your home to pay for college (Los Angeles Times)
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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:41:13 GMT
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Taking out federal student loans could be a smarter way than trying to refinance. Dear Liz: We owe $127,000 on a home that's currently worth more than $300,000. We have a daughter entering college in fall 2010. Her first year will be paid through an education account, her second through some of our savings. Years 3 and 4 are less clear, but we are certain we want to pay for the rest of her ...
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Stimulate economy from bottom up (Las Vegas Sun)
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:26:39 GMT
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What price do you put on a human life? It comes as no surprise to anyone (except, perhaps, Republicans) that our economy is in a free fall. Recently Congress wasted $700 billion on bailing out the banking industry in return for nothing more than banks’ thumbing their nose at society.
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Real estate trade groups want share of bailout, too (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:29:04 GMT
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The parade to feed at the federal bailout trough has begun. Now that banks and automakers have had their turn, commercial property owners want access to Uncle Sam's checkbook.
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Finance strategy just as key as school admissions office (The Record)
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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:43:35 GMT
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Many high school seniors have been spending winter break polishing college applications in the hope of getting into that dream school. Now it's their parents' turn to spend hours hunched over intimidating forms. Because getting into college is one thing, paying for it is another.
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