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10 smart money-saving tips for time-strapped people 08/27/2014 12:00am • Many times saving money equates to trading time. If you take time to research the best deal, you can find it. If you take the time to make meals from scratch, it will usually cost you less than eating out. We all know these tips work, but many people don't have time to implement these strategies Bet on Positive Expected Outcomes and Retire Earlier 08/27/2014 12:00am • Let's say someone made you an offer that goes something like this: He will flip a coin and if it comes out heads, you lose $5, but if it lands on tails, you win $10. You further find out that there are absolutely no gimmicks to this game, meaning that there is an exactly 50/50 chance of the coin la Portfolio Analysis: A $95,000 Investment Account Gets Political 08/27/2014 12:00am • Even though the Standard & Poor's 500 index has once again broken to record highs (just above 2,000) and is now up 164 percent since bottoming in 2009, the unfortunate plight of far too many investors is consistent market underperformance. In truth, it's alarming whenever a person's invest Detroit resumes shutting off water service 08/26/2014 07:22pm • COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Bankrupt Detroit resumed shutting off water to people who have not paid bills after a month long suspension that followed international and local criticism that the practice was unduly harsh to residents of one of the nation's poorest cities.The city s White House honor comes as vet's business totters 08/26/2014 06:40pm • EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- After a decade of being fired or quitting jobs in his struggle to adjust to civilian life, former Marine Corps sniper Matt Victoriano started his own coffee shop, vowing to employ struggling vets like himself.But even as he headed to Washington US credit card late payments down in 2Q 08/26/2014 03:40pm • ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Americans are doing a better job of making timely credit card payments, even as many lenders increasingly extend credit to more people with less-than-stellar credit.The rate of U.S. credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell to 1.16 percent i She paid off $48K in debt in less than three years. Here's how 08/26/2014 12:23pm • In 2008, Ja'Net Adams' household income dropped from $90,000 to $25,000 when she was laid off from her job as a pharmaceutical rep. And that wasn't the worst of it: They hadn't looked at a student loan bill in years, and they were overspending on everything from cars to clothes to entertainment. Aft Investors await latest information...Fewer people late with credit card payments 08/26/2014 07:40am • BEIJING (AP) -- International stock markets were mostly lower today as investors digested signals from the Jackson Hole, Wyoming meeting of U.S. central bankers and looked ahead to data expected to show an improving U.S. economy. Wall Street futures point to a flat opening today ahead of data on dur Ex-Va. governor faces questions from prosecutors 08/25/2014 07:13pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell faced sharp questions Monday from prosecutors about his personal finances, his interactions with a wealthy businessman and what the government claims were his attempts to conceal those details.Prosecutors began th Figures on government spending and debt 08/25/2014 04:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. 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Talk of ECB action grows as European economy fades 08/25/2014 04:28pm • DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Worries about the economy are rippling through Europe.Downbeat data have pushed the European Central Bank closer to more drastic action to keep the hesitant recovery from stalling completely.Meanwhile, open feuding in the French government a Survey: Economists say Fed is on 'the right track' 08/25/2014 03:50pm • KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A majority of economists believe the Federal Reserve is doing the right things to help repair the U.S. economy, according to a survey released Monday by the National Association of Business Economists.The survey also showed that a vast majority of econom Slovenia's parliament approves newcomer as premier 08/25/2014 02:00pm • LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) -- Slovenia's parliament has approved political newcomer Miro Cerar as the crisis-stricken eurozone country's next prime minister.The parliament on Monday voted 57-11 in Cerar's favor to replace former Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek.Cerar's new center-left SMC party convinci 1 in 4 millennials lacks health insurance 08/25/2014 09:22am • WASHINGTON - Adults under 30 are the least likely to have any type of insurance. Nearly 1 in 4 is not covered by a health insurance policy, a new survey finds. The survey done for InsuranceQuotes.com by Princeton Survey Research Associates International finds 24 percent of millennials don't hav Group decries India's reliance on waste cleaners 08/25/2014 08:38am • KATY DAIGLE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of impoverished, low-caste Indians are still working with their bare hands to clean human excrement from open roads and millions of dry pit latrines across the country, despite Indian laws prohibiting such work, an international ri