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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 10:34pm CDT
With the expiration of the $8,000 first-time home buyers tax credit rapidly approaching, Realtors are urging Congress to extend the program and potential buyers are looking to get in under the deadline.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 9:15pm CDT
One version of the approach would give benefit employers over two years if they increased their work force or added significant hours of work.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 8:24pm CDT
The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among economists and Washington officials grappling with the highest unemployment in a generation.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 4:42pm CDT
A Menomonie man was sentenced on Sept. 22 to spend the next 18 months in state prison after pleading no contest to writing a bad check.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 11:58am CDT
Household credit is defying gravity in Canada, expanding by more than 7 per cent year over year, a new analysis says.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 11:24am CDT
Although factory production has fallen dramatically, consumer demand has fallen even faster -- and until spending recovers, a return to economic growth is likely to be anemic
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 9:45am CDT
Household credit is growing at a year-over-year rate of more than 7%, the fastest seen in any economic recession in the post-war era on an inflation adjusted basis, a new CIBC Capital Markets report shows.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 8:03am CDT
Marshall & Ilsley (MI) said bad loans fell in the third quarter for the first time on a sequential basis in four years, a possible sign that the credit woes affecting banks may have peaked.