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If you want to be a player in baseball card investing, you'll probably have to swing for well-preserved, expensive cards. The free-agent vintage cards that have already appreciated are the safest path to big wins in the future.

Jennifer Langston jokes that her 2-year-old eats fruit like a bat, so that helped propel her to come up with nifty calculations on which fruits bring the most nutritional bang for your buck. If you want to watch your budget and also buy fruits that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the...

Gift-buying trends revealed at the New York International Gift Fair showed that consumers are still focused on value, but less leery of spending. Signs of the brighter mood were everywhere, from the color palettes to the growth in personal pampering products.

Who's going to win the Super Bowl? It's a valid question, and the answer better be the Packers (no offense to my fellow Chicagoans or Steelers fans). But there's a more valid question for Super Bowl Sunday -- what are you going to eat? Pizza is, naturally, a perfect choice. Easy to eat while...

Kiplinger's Personal Finance released its annual list of the 100 best values in public colleges and universities this week -- and, naturally, universities and regional publications nationwide wasted no time trumpeting their inclusion on the list. Still, students might wonder just what makes a...

Toyota's recent spate of quality woes have allowed competitors to steal sales from the beleaguered automaker. Ford is also catching up with Toyota in another important measure of auto industry success -- consumers' opinions of vehicle brands.

The song goes when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. You know what true amore is? Pizza pie. It's a stereotype that pizza is one of the staples of the college diet, but really, there's a lot of truth to that. Once you split the pie amongst friends, dinner's pretty cheap (a...

You're probably familiar with the effect of a sumptuous dessert tray wheeled to your table at a fine restaurant. When the cheesecake or torte or flan is within lunging distance, your salivary glands practically demand you order a slice. According to a group of researchers at Caltech, the same kind...

One of the biggest risks to the world's financial health is the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market. It's complex, it's unregulated, and it ought to be of concern to world leaders that its notional value is 20 times the size of the world economy.

The price war at fast food chains will get kicked up another notch soon. USA Today reports today that Taco Bell is on the verge of announcing plans to launch a $2 combo meal that include a taco or burrito, a medium soft drink, and a bag of Doritos chip. The move comes as the restaurant industry...