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<description><![CDATA[Consumers borrowed less for a record eighth straight month in September amid rising unemployment and tight credit conditions. Economists worry the declines in borrowing will drag on the fledgling recovery. The Federal Reserve said borrowing fell at an annual rate of $14.8 billion in September.]]></description>
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<title>Money In A Bottle: The Celebrity Scent Business</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you walk down the cosmetics aisle of any big store, you might mistake the perfume collection for the guest list to a Hollywood party. But star-studded scents account for only about 10 percent of fragrance sales; their value is the publicity.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The global economy is slowly recovering after the worst financial crisis in decades, but government efforts to stimulate growth, including the Fed's move to drive interest rates down to zero, may be creating another problem. Prices for assets &mdash; gold, stocks and real estate in Asia &mdash; are soaring, leading to warnings that a new bubble could be forming.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[News that the jobless rate has crossed the psychologically important 10 percent mark comes in the same week that Democrats suffered a sobering Election Day. Some experts say it dims Democratic prospects not just for 2010 but for the health care vote this weekend.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books. The move led rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Target Corp. to reduce some DVD prices, which pushed Wal-Mart to take a few more cents off its offerings.]]></description>
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<title>How Many Losses For The Democrats In 2010?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Historically the party that holds the White House almost always loses seats in its first midterm election. When one party holds the White House, the House and the Senate, the losses tend to be bigger. If the economy doesn't turn around, it will be a very difficult election year for Democrats.]]></description>
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<title>Colorado Plans To Lower Minimum Wage In 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Colorado will soon become the first state to cut its minimum wage. The 3 cent reduction will bring the wage down to $7.25 per hour, the same as the federal minimum. The cut is required by a law that ties the wage to inflation. But employment experts say companies are unlikely to cut the minimum for existing workers.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[More and more women have had to become their family's primary source of income. But women still don't make as much money as men. When a woman becomes the breadwinner, her family must survive on less than half of their previous income.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The state of New York is looking for ways to reduce the time the unemployed spend looking for jobs, and it's turning to a mathematical formula for help. Using an algorithm developed by a Boston technology company, the program directs resumes to the employers most likely to make a hire.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The White House says President Obama on Friday will sign a bill that expands a popular homebuyers tax credit and extends unemployment benefits. Congress on Thursday completed work on the $24 billion economic package that seeks to help out the millions who have lost jobs and have been unable to rejoin the workforce.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Chrysler is scrambling to revamp its product line. These are the vehicles that will be critical to its success.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that it will begin equipping certain vehicles with inflatable seat belts that the company says will help prevent injuries in auto accidents.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Fiat Group will soon unveil its plans to help get the struggling Chrysler Group back on track. But the question that won't be answered is whether these changes will come in time to save the company.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[What could have been a heated battle between between Toyota and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration in a game of "he said/she said" quickly cooled.]]></description>
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<title>Readers revolt over Ford</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A recent column of mine, "All is not rosy for Ford reliability," drew an unusually large and vigorous number of comments from readers -- 100% of them negative.]]></description>
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<title>GM scraps sale of European arm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[General Motors has decided to keep its European Opel unit, canceling the planned sale to Canadian firm Magna, the company said.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Chrysler Group broke even in September and ended its first post-bankruptcy quarter with more cash on hand than it had at the beginning of the period, the company's new boss said Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title>The coming explosion at Chrysler</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne will go before the media to reveal his plans for America's number-three automaker.]]></description>
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<title>Auto sales bounce back</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Major automakers reported Tuesday that their October sales rebounded following a weak September, as an increase in the number of cars available at dealers helped to get sales moving once again.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[New, groundbreaking features can alert you to danger before you even know it's there. But added safety comes at added cost.]]></description>
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