Real Estate
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Mortgage crisis hits million-dollar homes "Sheriff Leo McGuire presides over
foreclosure auctions in Bergen County, New Jersey, where the bidding for a home
reached $1.2 million last June -- a record for one of the wealthiest counties in the
nation."
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Real Estate
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Mortgage Regulators Grilled By Senate Committee "Banking regulators came
under fire in the U.S. Senate Thursday, facing a barrage of pointed questions on why
they didn’t do more to stave off what has become a bona fide bad credit mortgage
crisis. A senior staffer for the Federal Reserve, Roger T. Cole, was particularly
singled out at the hearing, conducted by the Senate committee in Banking, Housing
and Urban Affairs."
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Real Estate
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NEW RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN DECEMBER 2006: BUILDING
PERMITS, HOUSING STARTS, HOUSING COMPLETIONS
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Law Suits
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Newspaper staff wins labor suit "Jury awards $2.5 million to Chinese Daily News
workers who said they were denied overtime."
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Patents
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Patents "Necessity may be the mother of invention, but surely the patent is its
guardian angel. After all,where would inventors and entrepreneurs be without this
humble document to help protect their ideas in the marketplace?"
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Hiring
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Pink slips litter loan industry "The turmoil in the sub-prime mortgage sector hits
some workers as hard as borrowers. Brad Cottrell was a paramedic when a friend
introduced him to the high-rolling world of sub-prime mortgage lending..."
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Tax Breaks
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Proposed tax breaks split state's businesses "A federal minimum wage bill pits
the interests of small companies against those of large corporations."
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Resources
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Quintessential Directory of Company Career Centers "Go directly to the
job/career/employment section of employer's Websites. Because more and more
companies are developing career and employment centers on their corporate
Websites, Quintessential Careers has developed this directory, which allows you to go
straight to the career and employment section of the companies where you might like
to work."
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Hiring
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Recruiting and Hiring Employees and Employee Salary "When recruiting,
selecting, staffing and hiring, pick the smartest person you can find. Retention of your
best employees starts with your recruiting, staffing and hiring strategies, policies and
procedures. Recruiting, testing, selection and staffing are the focus of these
resources."
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Hiring
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Retention: What if 75% of Your Workers Found Other Jobs? "The bad news is
that surveys are showing that three of every four of your workers are probably job
hunting. The good news is that there are retention strategies to keep them..."
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Inflation
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Return Of Inflation? "After months of hibernation, inflation made an appearance
Thursday, complicating the U.S. economic outlook and reducing chances of an interest
rate cut by the Federal Reserve Bank."
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Selling Your
Company
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Selling your company "Question: I want to sell my business and hope to get about
$300,000. How can I find a competent local business broker?"
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Real Estate
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Shifting Housing Market Snubs Bad Credit "Homeowners with troubled credit
histories are finding it harder to get mortgages or refinance homes because softening
in the housing market is making lenders less likely to handle riskier loans."
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Community Building
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Silicon Insider: The New World of Startups "In the World of Web 2.0 Startups,
Sales and Venture Capitalist Money Take a Back Seat to Community Building."
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Real Estate
LATimes.com
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SoCal home sales now 54% below peak "Southern California home sales
continued to slump in July, falling 27% from year-ago levels, and are now running 54%
below peak levels reached in July 2003, DataQuick reported today..." 070815
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Business Startup
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Starting a Business? "Most businesses start out small. As a new business owner
you need to know your federal tax responsibilities. Advice on what new business
owners need to know about federal taxes."
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Business Startup
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Starting a Small Business 101 "Starting a small business requires determination,
motivation, and know-how."
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Family and Work
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Staying Sane While Working From Home "The 25 million people in the U.S. who
work from home fall into two categories: those who dread the idea of ever going into
an office again and those who find themselves so lonely they talk to the plants."
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Unemployment Rate
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Strong employment figures indicate steady, slower growth
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Innovations
LATimes.com
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The fine art of making a point "'Human directionals' -- those guys spinning
advertising arrows -- can cost $60 an hour. Some of their best moves are filed in the
patent office..."
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Real Estate
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Top investor sees U.S. property crash "Commodities investment guru Jim Rogers
stepped into the U.S. subprime fray on Wednesday, predicting a real estate crash that
would trigger defaults and spread contagion to emerging markets. 'You can't believe
how bad it's going to get before it gets any better,' the prominent U.S. fund manager
told Reuters by telephone from New York."
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Money
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Treasuries Post Biggest Weekly Drop Since June on Jobs Report
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Automotive Industry
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U.S. auto sales fall 5% in January "...dragged down as domestic manufacturers
slashed low-profit sales to rental companies. A 19.6% sales drop at Ford Motor Co.
pushed it into an unaccustomed fourth place in the monthly rankings, slightly behind
Chrysler Group, which rose 0.5% from a year earlier on sales of several new models."
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Media Jobs
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U.S. media jobs slashed 88 percent "The media industry slashed 17,809 jobs last
year, a nearly two-fold increase from the 9,453 cuts in 2005..."
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Outsourcing
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Unisys, Wipro to Seek Outsourcing Deals
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Business Startup
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Venturing Forth A Three-Step Guide to Planning a Business "The road to
self-employment involves hard work and creativity.
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Investments
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Volatility In Emerging Markets: A Warning Sign "On Feb. 13, Inside Global
Markets cautioned subscribers about an upcoming correction in emerging market
securities."
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Scheduling Software
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Wal-Mart rolls out scheduling software
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Real Estate
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Western Home Foreclosures Soar, but Resort Towns Flourish "PARK CITY,
Utah, Jan. 25, 2007 — Two billion dollars worth of real estate was sold last year in this
mountain ski town of 8,500 residents"
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Business Plans
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Why do I need a business plan? "A business plan is often the entry-level
requirement to getting government money, investor capital or bank loans."
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Business Startup
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Work at Home Business "When you start your work at home business, you probably
have not idea about how conflicted you will become about your time. You have this
idea that, since it is your business, your time will be completely your own.
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Business Startup
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Work At Home Opportunity Or Stick With The Corporate World? "Considering
one's career path could be one of the most stressful times in a persons life. This is of
course a scary thought for most people..."
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Real Estate
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X factors push home prices up or down "New-home shoppers know the same
model by the same builder can cost more or less, depending on the location."
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