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The number of discouraged job seekers is at an all time high. These readers tell us what it’s like to give up on the job search.

President Obama has been talking — a lot — about what Washington needs to do to help save small businesses. Over the past week, he’s introduced a half-dozen different initiatives aimed at unlocking credit, creating jobs and expanding the Small Business Administration’s loan programs.

Mortgage rates reached a low record, this operation aims to help home owners to pay their mortgages and potential buyers to act by buying the house of their dreams.

At the end of this year, americans homes owners will have lost collectively $2 trillion for the value of their houses. The Web site Zillow.com, which specializes in real estate, calculated the total value of all American homes. With a decline of 8.4% for the first three quarters of 2008, compared with 2007. We hope [...]

Here are the top ten of the largest U.S. corporations, this classification was developed by the magazine Fortune 500 and CNN Money. Not surprisingly, the winner of this ranking is Wal-Mart, companies linked to oil, the automobile industry as well as banks.
 

The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News will become the first major metropolitan newspapers in the United States to end daily home delivery, the papers announced Tuesday.

Question: My adviser charges me between 5% and 6% of what I invest in the mutual funds for my IRA. He says this fee is extremely fair to me. But I previously had an IRA for which I paid only $20 a year. What is an acceptable fee for an IRA? –Teresa Nagengast, Deptford, New [...]