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Credit card hikes raise Congress' blood pressure

01.11.09

As credit card companies continue raising rates and fees, lawmakers are considering bills to stop such hikes until new credit card laws take effect.

The average college grad comes out owing $22,500, per FinAid.org - a scary sum in good economic times. Now unemployment for BA holders is at its highest since the Labor Department started keeping track in 1992, making that debt burden even more onerous. Our collection of five funds and five ETFs provides broad diversification and leaves the hard work to some of the savviest managers in the business. There comes a point in every good book where you're convinced you know how the plot goes. And then you turn the page and something unexpected happens that changes all your assumptions. Well, that's where we are now.



Get out your calendars, folks. It's time to celebrate -- or perhaps mourn -- the 10th anniversary of one of the epic financial events of our time: the peak of the great stock market bubble, in March 2000. That's the month the Nasdaq, Standard & Poor's 500, and Wilshire 5000 all reached new highs, then headed south, big-time. (The Dow industrials peaked that January, but who cares? It's just a crummy 30 stocks.) Question: I'm 48 years old and have about 90% of my 401(k) invested in my company's stock and the rest in an international equity fund. I want to diversify further, but don't know where to turn. Any suggestions? --J.D., Glenville, New York President Obama has said he'd like to lower the tax load on families making less than $250,000 and to raise it on people who make more than that.

Horror stories of $2,000 phone bills are rare, but thousands -- even millions -- of people could be wasting money on outdated telephone services.

Last year it looked as if the era of the celebrity fund manager was finally, definitively over. The best and brightest had not only failed to avoid the financial meltdown but did worse than the market as a whole. Now some are staging a comeback. At times the market acts like the fool. Protecting yourself from its folly is simpler than you might think.

So your 401(k) plan is down. A lot. Should you scale back your contributions and put the money elsewhere? Health care IT company Emdeon is the latest tech company to have a happy debut in the public markets. As yet another bank faces collapse, consumers are worried about their cash.



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