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Be a Smart Giver: Check Up on Charities Before Donating
2:30PM 12/12/2011
As you open your wallet for charity this holiday season (and throughout the year), do so carefully. It's estimated that charity fraud costs us up to $20 billion or more each year.
The One Safe Way to Invest in Municipal Bonds Now
10:00AM 4/08/2011
After respected banking analyst Meredith Whitney rattled the municipal bond market with her prediction of hundreds of billions of dollars in muni defaults, small investors dumped the bonds. That dire prediction may yet come true, but there are a few types of munis that still carry virtually no risk.
Facebook to Redesign Profile Pages
5:15PM 12/05/2010
In a blog post, Facebook says it is redesigning its members' profile pages to better highlight its users' photos. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to detail the changes Sunday on 60 Minutes.
Why 'American Idol' Still Commands TV's Biggest Bucks
6:30AM 10/19/2010
Despite a slip in its ratings dip and the loss of man-we-love-to-hate Simon Cowell, American Idol remains the most expensive show on TV for advertisers. Why are they willing to pay close to half a million dollars for a 30-second spot? Young viewers, and lots of them.
TARP may end soon, but the battle over banker pay goes on
10:45AM 12/14/2009
Company News, Economy, Investing, Goldman Sachs , American International Group, Bank of America, Citigroup
While America's biggest banks may still be kicking and screaming about their need to make compensation decisions without interference, the bailouts they took from the government could impact their freedom to hand out excessive cash compensation for years to come. Even the hiring of a CEO for Bank...
Walmart: America's favorite scapegoat
3:00PM 10/04/2009
Walmart (WMT) prides itself on its low prices, but it tends to make the news for more controversial topics. For critics, its business practices symbolize all that is wrong with American industry; on the flip side, many consumers view it as a key to their financial survival. As such, the battles...
On Sunday, Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes unveiled their latest news gathering technique: polling. The magazine and news show plan to run monthly surveys to determine the opinions of the American public, and will use the pieces to inform their writing and programming.
One of the poll's most...
'60 Minutes' creator Don Hewitt dies of cancer at age 86
1:00PM 8/19/2009
Barely a month after the death of Walter Cronkite, CBS News has lost another legend. Don Hewitt, creator of 60 Minutes and one of the leading pioneers of television news, has died at age 86. He had been reported to be undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.
Over the course of more than half a...
Gunga Dan's not looking so nutty now, is he?
Dan Rather scored a major triumph against his former employer yesterday as a state supreme court judge reinstated his fraud claim against CBS and ordered the network to turn over thousands of documents it was hoping to keep private.
I'll be the first...
License to drink? College presidents think legal drinking age should go lower
6:30PM 2/23/2009
Relationships, School, healthcare, college finance, Family Money
Remember how seriously you took the test to get your driver's license? What if the same hoops and hurdles to putting 16-year-olds behind the wheel was applied to letting 18-year-olds drink alcohol? This is the solution to the abysmal failure of the 21-and-over drinking law discussed on CBS's 60...
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