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Budget Battles

  • How a Fake Currency War Panicked Global Economies

    By Patrick Smith

    When Shinzo Abe was elected Japan’s prime minister in December, he immediate announced a $118 billion economic stimulus plan -- despite a national debt equal to 200 percent of GDP, the world’s...

  • Financial Decline Ahead for Most Retirees

    By Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post

    For the first time since the New Deal, a majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents, jeopardizing a long era of improved...

  • Analysts Say the Stock Market Rally May Be Over

    By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

    As the quarterly earnings period draws to a close and the market bumps into strong technical resistance, many analysts say the market could spend the next few weeks consolidating gains that have...

  • Leaked Wal-Mart Email Drags Down Retail Stocks

    By Jee Yeon Park, CNBC

    Wal-Mart shares fell Friday, dragging on the retailer sector, after an internal company email, in which an executive said February sales were a "total disaster" so far, leaked out.

  • 8 Best Industries for Starting a Business in 2013

    By Sheryl Nance Nash, The Fiscal Times

    Here are eight growing industries with plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs.