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Why House Flippers Might Get Hosed

House flippers helped generate the real-estate frenzy from 2003 to 2006, buying and selling homes within six months or less […]

Steve Romick: Trade Into The Gold You Can Eat, Farmland

By Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, Steve Romick is a managing partner at FPA Funds and was previously chairman of Crescent Management. […]

Rising Mortgage Rates, Home Prices a Lethal Brew

A sharp rise in mortgage rates over the last few weeks means it may already be too late for many […]

Foreclosure sales tumble in first quarter: RealtyTrac

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sales of U.S. homes in foreclosure fell in the first quarter, a report from RealtyTrac showed […]

A Blueprint for Internationalizing Yourself

The countries of the developed world are experiencing a new class of refugee – members of the middle and upper […]

Billy Joel on Life

Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN Billy Joel hasn’t put out an […]

Ford’s profits will accelerate as Europe improves: Barron’s

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of Ford Motor Co (F.N) have surged nearly 40 percent over the past year, but […]

Inside Google’s Secret Lab

By Brad Stone, Bloomberg Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google’s (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to […]

NASA awards grant for 3-D food printer; could it end world hunger?

By Eric Pfeiffer, From Yahoo! News , Call it food for thought. Or perhaps thought for food: NASA has given […]

The New Science of Giving

By Brad Regan, From The Wall Street Journal, LIKE ANY POPULAR food writer, Gary Taubes gets more than his share […]