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Berlin’s outspoken former city finance chief Thilo Sarrazin has provoked the citizens of his old home town once again by blaming the city’s underclass and its leftist mentality for what he sees as its lack of success.

With the expiration of the $8,000 first-time home buyers tax credit rapidly approaching, Realtors are urging Congress to extend the program and potential buyers are looking to get in under the deadline.

Oct.

Use your credit card to dig for discounts and you might get dinged. What you buy and where you shop may affect your credit score.

Two whistle-blowers accused Moody’s Investors Service of misconduct Wednesday the latest public flogging the big credit-ratings agencies have endured since their flawed judgments contributed to a global financial crisis.

THE day Rotary Club of Kelana Jaya launched its “Adoption of Rumah Wake 1” project was also the day Crocodile Foundation gave them a grant of RM10,000 to be used for the home’s children’s educational needs.

The Senate Finance Committee pushed ahead Wednesday on a comprehensive health care bill.

WASHINGTON — Dozens of 7-Eleven store owners, in a gambit to call attention to credit cards’ swipe fees, gathered in Washington Wednesday to present Congress with 130 boxes containing nearly 1.7 million signatures in favor of lowering the fees.

Sept. 30 — U.S

As the roll-back of the boosted first home owners grant begins, economists say it has helped construction, but may have made houses less affordable.