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BUSINESS LAW

Shareholders to Flex Muscle
This Proxy Season

The SEC is giving investors a lot more power, and they’re sure to use it.

ENERGY COSTS & SAVINGS

Tapping Oil off Cuba's Shores

American energy firms will prosper from plans to sidestep the embargo.

RETIREMENT

New Life for
Cash Balance Plans

Much maligned a few years ago, cash balance plans now have a chance to be a useful cost-cutting tool for pension plan sponsors.

COMMUNITY

"...The ability to be fairly hired and kept on the job is vitally important to older Americans so that many do not fall into poverty because of fixed incomes, falling securities, falling housing prices, lack of low-income housing, vanishing COLAS, threats to Social security and Medicare -- and no way to combat rising costs." – Joan

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Mild Recovery
Faces Challenges Ahead

The economy's picking itself up, but there are forces trying to knock it down.

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Saturday Mail Getting the Sack

Businesses will have to readjust their promotion plans once the USPS switches to a Monday to Friday schedule.

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How much do you know about getting started -- and achieving financial success?

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Mark Willen

The debate should be about the best preventive medicine without anyone trying to use the issue for political gain.

Economic Outlook

Tracking the Indicators

Kiplinger Recovery Index

The six economic indicators we've been tracking show the recession has bottomed and the recovery is under way. But brace for choppy, slow growth.

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