Buy a house, and other forced savings
Reuters
Buy a house. That may sound like crazy advice at a time when many advisers have newly come to embrace renting, but look at the math: If you buy a home on a 30-year fixed mortgage and make your payments every month, at the end of 30 years you own a ...

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Comic collection could yield serious money
China Daily
The 345 comics were slated to sell at auction in New York on Wednesday, and were expected to fetch more than $2 million. Rorrer, 31, of Oxnard, California, discovered his great uncle Billy Wright's comics neatly stacked in a basement closet while ...

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Scrutinizing the Sexy New Art-Tech Industry: It's Not a Bubble, It's Barely a Blip
ARTINFO
VIP Art Fair, one of the most talked-about recent Web-art ventures, is supposed to be a platform that approximates the art fair experience, facilitating sales (though no sales are made directly through VIP, which makes its money off of selling online ...

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Durbin: Additional high-speed rail money will be a tough sell
The State Journal-Register
“We're going to go out there and make our case." Local and state officials face a tough sell when it comes to additional, federal money for high-speed trains in Illinois and consolidation of rail traffic in Springfield, US Sen.

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How Companies Are 'Defining Your Worth' Online
WBUR
One of the fastest-growing online businesses is the business of spying on Internet users. Using sophisticated software that tracks people's online movements through the Web, companies collect the information and sell it to advertisers.

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States make money off loot confiscated by TSA
Tucson Citizen
Collecting, sorting and selling the odd objects is a chore, and the amount some states make may seem paltry. This month, California had one of its quarterly auctions and got $9800 for TSA-confiscated items, Liang says. “It's not a lot of money, ...

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Should you sell your MF Global claim?
CattleNetwork.com
In return for assuming this risk of a payout from the bankruptcy process and for making immediate payment, the buyer pays the seller some discounted amount of the full claim. This discount represents the time value of money on the payment, ...

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Gold to rise much higher in this decade, do not sell it: Jim Rogers
Economic Times
Throughout history when you have people printing money and debasing currency, the way to protect yourself and to make money is to own real assets. Silver, rice, natural gas, and those are not specific recommendations. I am just saying those are natural ...
For Iran oil trader, Western ties run deepReuters
Speculators blamed for rising oil, gas pricesThe Seattle Times

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Facebook: 2X Google's Page Views, 1/10th the Revenue
Huffington Post
The Kenyan school girls that I mentor, and their friends and family, are lucky to get on Facebook for a few minutes every week or so and have no money to buy anything. So, don't be too punch drunk on the 845 million number. Google had a "triumvirate" ...
4 Recent IPOs To WatchSeeking Alpha
Tech Bubble 2.0: It's a Private ThingMinyanville.com

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Wednesday 2/22 Insider Buying Report: CIZN, AVEO
Forbes
As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy — they expect to make money. So let's look at two noteworthy recent insider buys. At Citizens Holding Co (CIZN), a filing with the SEC ...

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