Your investments have disappeared. Your vacation fund has vaporized. New clothes for spring are only a daydream. But you have to eat.

Clara knows what she’s talking about. She was born in 1915 in Chicago, and says she quit high school to work in a factory as a teenager.  These days, she shares her wisdom from [...]

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The Securities and Exchange Commission accused r. allen stanford, the chief of the Stanford Financial Group, on Tuesday of conducting “a massive ongoing fraud” in the sale of about $8 billion of high-yielding certificates of deposit held in the firm’s bank in Antigua. Also named in the suit were two other executives and some affiliates [...]

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