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There’s something to be said for all of the brave women and men making strides against breast cancer every day. For many, the challenging battle is made easier with the assistance of outstanding organizations and everyday people supporting breast cancer survivors by fighting for a cure and offering financial aid for breast cancer patients. 
Occupy Wall Street protesters have been cropping up in cities around the United States and are making their debut on the global stage today. That’s according to requests on the web for supporters to start street protests everywhere from London to Rome.
There are many events in life that require the answer to the question: Are you ready? One of the biggest is buying a house. This huge financial investment requires a lot of thought behind the decision to take the plunge, including finding the best mortgage rates and saving enough to make the required down payment.
It’s cooling off, which means everything you need for spring and summer is starting to go on sale now, when you least need it, of course. However, if you plan ahead, you can take advantage of October discounts and keep more in your savings account all year.
As time progresses, the concern over the nation’s debt and plummeting employment opportunities continues to dominate the political scene. Multi-billionaire, Warren Buffett, has advocated that he and his fellow billionaires be required by Congress to pay higher taxes as a “shared sacrifice” in lifting the country from its deepening debt crisis.
In recent months, checking account customers have been bombarded with new fees from big banks. Whether they’re faced with the elimination of free checking accounts or being charged to use their debit card, it’s getting harder to escape basic bank account-related costs.
As Halloween rises from the crypt for another season, so does our zeal for nightmarish festivities. In a 2011 Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF,) 68.6 percent of Americans plan on celebrating Halloween this year.
However, with household budgets tightening up due to economic and employment pressures, saving money with creative corner-cutting can turn your Halloween finance horrors into a night of frugal fun.
When we hear about possible identity theft and data breaches in the news, they almost always involve a large corporation. Remember when the PlayStation network got hacked back in April of 2011? That incident put 77 million people’s credit card info at risk. Scary, right?
You won’t likely shed any tears over this: Being a debt collector is harder than ever. While most Americans want to get out of debt using a debt management plan or debt consolidation, many can’t afford the payments right now. This complicates the debt collection process. Debt collectors aren’t dealing with deadbeats ducking obligations–they’re trying to get blood from a stone at a time of record debt.
Gold has taken quite a beating lately, along with just about every other widely-traded investment product you can think of–barring the U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasury securities, that is. The rise in price of the latter two and sharp, protracted drops in stocks, real estate and commodities shows just how much fear exists among traders and investors that an even more significant downturn is in the offing.
