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Olympic Swimmer Amanda Beard's New Sport: Author

Dec 18th 2010 - 09:00AM |DailyFinance

Amanda Beard may only be 29 years old, but she's been in the hearts and minds of Olympics-obsessed Americans ever since she took home three medals -- including a gold -- from the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games ...

Property Taxes Keep Rising as Home Values Keep Falling

Dec 18th 2010 - 08:00AM |DailyFinance

Common sense suggests that as home prices decline, the property taxes based on their valuations ought to as well. But even as house prices continue to slip, property taxes nationally are clicking ...

California Postpones Its Diesel-Emission Standards

Dec 17th 2010 - 10:30PM |DailyFinance

Business owners will have more time to comply with California's tough diesel emissions standards for trucks, school buses and construction equipment under more relaxed rules that air quality officials ...

Obama Signs Giant Tax Bill Into Law

Dec 17th 2010 - 06:21PM |DailyFinance

President Barack Obama signed into law a huge, holiday-season tax bill extending cuts for all Americans on Friday, saluting a new spirit of political compromise as Republicans applauded and liberals ...

Leading Economic Indicators Rise 1.1%, Pointing to Stronger Growth in 2011

Dec 17th 2010 - 04:45PM |DailyFinance

Memo to investors: The U.S. economic expansion is strengthening. For proof, see November's leading economic indicators (LEI) index, which featured a 1.1% rise. That's the forward-looking index's biggest ...

Stocks Close Higher for the Week, Once Again

Dec 17th 2010 - 04:30PM |DailyFinance

Stocks closed modestly mixed on light volume Friday in the last full trading week of the year, which marked the third week in a row of overall gains. Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer (PFE) and Merck (MRK) put ...

Trustee Secures Additional $7.2 Billion for Victims of Madoff Fraud

Dec 17th 2010 - 04:00PM |DailyFinance

Victims of the Ponzi scheme perpetuated by convicted fraudster Bernard L. Madoff are likely to see much more of their initial returned to them after the trustee charged with recouping losses along with ...

Chase Hit With SEC Whistleblower Complaint Over Credit Card Practices

Dec 17th 2010 - 03:47PM |DailyFinance

Linda Almonte, a former employee of JPMorgan Chase (JPM) who is suing the bank for wrongful termination, has just upped the ante: She has now also filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and ...

Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World

Dec 17th 2010 - 03:30PM |DailyFinance

Not long ago, John Doerr -- a Kleiner Perkins partner and the so-called Michael Jordan of venture capital -- was interviewed at a tech conference and asked about his firm's choice to pass on an early ...

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