7 Spending Cuts You Might Not Even Notice

With a weak recovery showing signs of faltering, it's time to prepare for more belt-tightening.

Coinstar Hispanic National Currency Poll Reveals a Majority of Hispanics Have Altered Their Financial Plans for ...

The Coinstar Hispanic National Currency Poll revealed today that a majority of Hispanics have changed their financial plans for the remainder of 2010 in an effort to better protect their financial futures.

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• Will Enemalta compensate the 15,000 residents in Safi, Żurrieq and Kirkop who suffered a power cut of nearly 24 hours on the first weekend of August? Thousands of man-hours of work were lost, appliances were damaged and food in fridges – and, in some cases, freezers too – had to be thrown away.

Is it time to dump your budget?

If you want to get your finances on track, a written plan is the way to go -- but you shouldn't have to do it forever. Here's how to tell when you can finally go without.

Elgin fixer-uppers City buying vacant homes, with neighborhood stabilization the goal

Just taking a whiff of the moldy air inside two big old homes standing next to each other on the 400 block of East Chicago Street -- not to mention their obvious states of disrepair -- gives a clue that these foreclosed dwellings have seen better days. But by taking advantage of a federal program, Elgin hopes better days return for those two houses, the block on which they stand, and a number of ...