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The credit score and credit report blog SpendOnLife.com took an in-depth look at the credit scores of the five richest and five poorest neighborhoods by income to find out what separates the swank from the slum. In the same feature it also ranked each state by average credit score, so you can see...

With reports that Madoff's 3,000-square-foot beach house on Montauk may have a buyer by Friday, U.S. marshals have begun publicizing his Palm Beach house, Manhattan penthouse and boats. A realtor for the property in Montauk told the New York Times that there were 23 showings to potential buyers...

Businesses, insurers, and other analysts have often sought to put a price tag on the value of a human life. In the health-care debate, for example, the magic number is $129,000; by comparison, when Ford designed the Pinto, its number-crunchers determined that the company's customers (or at least...

Are people going to spend $20 for an issue of Worth? I would suspect not. The publicity gimmick by Sandow Media Corp., which bought Worth from CurtCo. Media last year, says a mouthful about the precarious state of the print media. First quarter magazine advertising revenue plunged 20 percent as big...

At a time when most retailers are struggling, business is booming at Palm Beach consignment stores - thanks to Bernie Madoff. That's where many of the disgraced financier's victims are now hocking designer clothing, furniture and other luxury goods at an unprecedented rate, local shop owners say....