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If your New Year's resolutions include toning up a flabby bottom line and avoiding becoming the biggest financial loser in 2010, toast your goals with the good stuff -- champagne and sparkling wines priced right for recession-weary revelers. Following several cork-popping years of...

As I pointed out earlier this month, it's way too easy to rack up an outrageous credit card bill shopping for holiday fashions. And the biggest charge on that statement, nine times out of ten, is what you spend on a New Year's Eve outfit. It's by far the hardest winter splurge to resist -- no one...

Airlines are the squeaky wheel of the travel industry, and they get a lot of grease in the media, so by now we all know how to navigate ticket buying. But baggage fees are on the rise and airfares are an uncertain game of roulette, so many of us are choosing to go to Grandmother's house by land...