Headline News Archive

2009

March

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• Comparison shopping for medicine. What's best for insomnia -- Lunesta, at about $6 a pill, or Zolpidem, at $2? Should a man with prostate cancer choose radiation, surgery or "watchful waiting"?

• Mortgage fraud up as credit tightens. Mortgage fraud jumped by 26 percent last year even though fewer loans were issued nationwide, and Maryland ranked among the top five states with the most

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• Tax law changes for 2008 tax year. Economic stimulus payments are not taxable, and they are not reported on 2008 tax returns. However, the stimulus payment does affect whether a taxpayer can claim

• Moneybloggers share the wealth. It's often said that talking about money is the last taboo. But our cash coyness appears to be disappearing along with the growth of personal

• Bargaining down the medical bills. When money is tight, everything is negotiable — including your health care bills. As the economy sheds jobs and more people lose their health insurance or

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• Workers' health benefits eyed for taxation. With President Obama's plan to tax the rich to pay for health care facing deep skepticism on Capitol Hill, key lawmakers are pressing a different

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• Oversight of bank bailouts criticized. Congressional investigators are criticizing the Obama administration for failing to police deals in which banks participating in the $700 billion federal bailout lent billions of dollars

• Money stimulates discussion of program's goals. As tens of billions of dollars in stimulus funds begin to flow across the country, states and federal agencies are gripped by disputes over whether

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• Compare health care prices to save. By comparison shopping and negotiating the best price on health-care services and medications - the same tactics you would use for any other major purchase

• Regulatory reform sought after securities fraud. In both multi-billion dollar cases, there were common warning signs. Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford promised customers safe, consistent returns that were higher

• Some FHA mortgages go bad from get-go. The last time the housing market was this bad, Congress set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure Depression-era mortgages that lenders wouldn't otherwise make.

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• Más personas demoran el pago de sus hipotecas. La cantidad de personas que demoran en pagar sus hipotecas aumentó en un 53 por ciento en el cuarto trimestre del 2008 en comparación con el

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• How Citigroup changes affect you?. In the latest effort to bolster the credit markets, the government dramatically expanded its stake in Citigroup (C) last week. The government will take as

• Siete días para cuidar tu dinero. La Semana de Protección al Consumidor dura poco, pero te convierte en un consumidor más precavido durante todo el año. De acuerdo

• Cobertura médica para desempleados. El gobierno del presidente Obama se apresuró a incluir una red de seguridad para trabajadores cesanteados en la recién aprobada ley de estímulo

February

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• Taking on a tenant to ease the burden. Alan Rickert didn't set out to be a landlord. When he bought a one-bedroom condominium in Shirlington in 2005, he was sure rising prices would guarantee

• One step off the superhighway. President Obama made his first major push for the Web this month when he signed off on the stimulus bill, which includes $7.2 billion to bring

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• Economic state of the union. Fourteen months into a downturn that appears to be deepening, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress tonight to speak about the health

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• Can Obama overhaul health care?. Now for the hard part. Even if the national credit card is maxed out and partisanship remains the rule for Washington's political tribes, President Barack

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• Taxing motorists on miles driven. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn —

• Health insurance for jobless workers. A new subsidy that goes into effect March 1 could make health insurance more affordable for millions of laid-off workers. But some businesses fear it could

• Cómo te puede ayudar el estímulo. A menos de un mes de llegar a la presidencia, Barack Obama promulgó el martes el plan de estímulo económico, dotado con cerca

• Costs for individual health plans soar. At a time when more people are forced to buy their own health insurance because of job losses, costs for many individual policies are soaring.

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• For uninsured young people, do it yourself care. They borrow leftover prescription drugs from friends, attempt to self-diagnose ailments online, stretch their diabetes and asthma medicines for as long as possible and set

• Hefty health spending in stimulus bill. The economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama contains more than $140 billion in health care spending, designed mostly to ease the recession's effects on workers