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Editor's note: This story originally appeared on October 28, 2010, but has been updated to reflect new information. If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who wait until the last minute to file your taxes, make a note: The IRS recerntly announced that the due date for 2010...

By Helen A. Coster, Forbes.com How does your household budget stack up? 'Tis the season for turning otherwise normal people into up-at-dawn, deal-seeking lunatics. What better time than the holidays to look at how consumers -- in the U.S. and around the world -- spend their discretionary...

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By Catey Hill, SmartMoney.com 1. This is illegal in Canada An hour after munching on some light potato chips -- made with fat substitute olestra -- Debra Jaliman, 55, a Manhattan dermatologist, found herself so sick with abdominal cramps that she had to cancel her slate of patients. Reactions...

By Lacey Rose, Forbes.com From Judge Judy to Lady Gaga, the best-paid entertainers collectively banked $835 million last year. Hollywood's leading ladies have plenty to boast about financially, until you compare their pay checks to those of their male counterparts. Fair or not, the...

WalletPop reveals the safest neighborhoods with the lowest predicted rates of property and violent crime in America's major cities. Most Americans equate big cities with high crime -- New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals that even big cities with...

By Nicole Perlroth and Michael Noer, Forbes.com There are 6.8 billion people on the planet. These are the 68 who matter. We are fascinated by power. We stand in awe of those who apply it adroitly -- and in fear of those who abuse it. We lust for power. Everyone would rather be a hammer than a...

By Jami Makan, SMARTMONEY MAGAZINE 1. "Recession? We hardly noticed." Outlet stores date back more than a century, to when factories offered discounts on excess and damaged shoes and clothing to employees -- and later the public, too. Menswear manufacturer Anderson-Little opened one of the first...