friday the 13th

    By Bruce Watson

    | 5:00AM 4/13/2012
    Forget black cats, broken mirrors and unstoppable psychopaths in hockey masks -- on Friday the 13th, the biggest terrors sometimes hit our wallets. No, the Great Crash of 1929 didn't start on a Friday, but a fair number of financial disasters did.

    By Dawn Kawamoto, The Motley Fool

    | 7:00AM 1/13/2012
    Oh, no! It's Friday the 13th! A day that has tens of millions of Americans on edge and awaiting disaster. But all this worrying and fear leads to more than just gray hairs -- it also leads to hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business.

    By Julia Scott

    | 7:00AM 8/13/2010
    This week's Friday Freebies is devoted to all things back-to-school. There are school supplies, free meals for students, free 2-day shipping, and even a last-ditch free vacation before school starts. Enjoy! Get free back-to-school supplies for the 2010-11 school year through Vista Print, which...