Rising Price of the American Dream
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First of two articlesThey were a real estate agent's dream: well heeled, well educated and preapproved for a $400,000 home.
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The threat of higher inflation is a real one. Here's how to survive and even thrive.
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Soaring U.S. home values in the first five years of this decade have left homeowners feeling flush, but housings costs also have risen sharply, cutting into stagnant incomes, Census Bureau data show.
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The rumored price increase arrives. Will U.S. consumers care?
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The number of Americans who can't find employment creeps higher.
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Surging energy costs drove US consumer prices up by a hefty and larger-than-expected 0.6 percent last month, the biggest jump since May, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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Convenience usually comes at a price â and that price has been climbing.
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Mortgage rates in the US increase, and short-term rates rise overseas.
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Our business is the American Dream. That&#39;s the slogan of Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest backer of home mortgages. The institution was chartered in 1938 to expand home ownership, but its leadership today
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There are 9.3 million households in the U.S. with net worths of at least $1 million; bargain hunting on Wall Street; green investing and more.
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Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value.
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Americans have the right idea about money -- and are going about it all wrong.
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As mortgage defaults rise, more houses are being put up for auction -- and more people are seeing a chance to make big bucks. But there are risks
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Business & money: Unemployment in the United States rose to its highest level in more than two years last month
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Some experts fear that a boom in gas demand for electricity generation will send prices even higher.
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There is growing pressure for increases to teachers' pay as inflation rises to higher than expected levels.
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US markets lose ground as data shows repossessions and overdue mortgage payments in the US have hit their highest level in years.