Updated: 03/15/10 8:31 AM
Iadmit it. I did it just last week. I was scurrying through the grocery store, feeling guilty about leaving my pooch home alone after a long day at work, and just started chucking things into my cart.
Asking for more: Don’t be afraid to ask for a raise
Updated: 03/15/10 8:30 AM
Asking for a raise in this Dickensian economy can have you feeling like Oliver Twist asking for more gruel. “Please, sir, I want some more.”
How to overcome being overqualified
Updated: 03/15/10 8:29 AM
WASHINGTON—He’s worked in construction for almost two decades, and Maurice Paul can’t get a job as a cashier at Home Depot.
Baseball cards outvalue peanuts and Cracker Jacks
Updated: 03/15/10 7:12 AM
NEW YORK—The boxes of baseball cards you so carefully collected are invaluable for the memories they evoke. But do they have any real value?
Workers have minimal retirement savings
Updated: 03/15/10 7:12 AM
Tom Taormina is 65 and has no retirement savings. The Virginia City, Nev., business consultant said it’s not for lack of trying. He and his wife, Midge, have tried to save and at one time invested in the stock market, but it’s all been depleted.
New routing system can handle overflowing Net
Updated: 03/15/10 7:12 AM
SAN JOSE, Calif. — It won’t make your iPhone run any faster right away, but Cisco says its new generation of high-speed routing equipment — unveiled to much fanfare last week — is designed to handle a rising tide of video and mobile data transmissions that is threatening to flood the Internet.
Personal Finance
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- Baseball cards outvalue peanuts and Cracker Jacks
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- Clipping coupons can save a bundle
- Snap up low prices on term life insurance before rates rise
- Don’t get carried away when buying in bulk
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- M&T to shut branch in Tops
- Appellate court orders Fed to reveal loan recipients
- Retirees fight benefits cutoff
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Iadmit it. I did it just last week. I was scurrying through the grocery store, feeling guilty about leaving my pooch home alone after a long day at work, and just started chucking things into my cart.
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