German billionaire Adolph Merckle, who has been beset by money woes, committed suicide. According to Bloomberg News, Merckle, listed as 94th on Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest people, was hit by a train. ...

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The High Cost of Losing Money. With the economic crisis raging worldwide, from mortgage foreclosures to international bank collapses, the wealthy have not been immune to loss and instability. On Tuesday, a German industrialist who was ...

The most important thing for us as a company in the very short term is for us to start making money. This is a pledge that was made last March and is something that we are still very much on target to achieve. Once we have achieved this ...

Hewlett-Packard launches a new buyback program that will give you money in exchange for your old, working gadgets and gear—any brand of PC, monitor, printer, digital camera, or smartphone that still has some value. ...

Long gone are the debates from 2004-2006 about whether making money from a blog is ok. Now, instead of “should” ...

The M1 money multiplier just slipped below 1. So each $1 increase in reserves (monetary base) results in the money supply increasing by $0.95 (OK, so banks have substantially increased their holding of excess reserves while the M1 money ...

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There is a lesson in all this: Unlike suing them, embracing fans who want to actively participate in your brand is a way to maintain loyalty, generate play counts and make some money in the process. ...

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