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Stock rally: Rest or recharge
 Wall Street has finally gotten the piece of economic news it has been waiting for: the battered labor market may be starting to heal. But with major stock gauges at their highest levels in more than a year, recovery bets could already be baked into the cake.
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 Best time to get a job
Putting your job hunt on the back burner until after New Year's? That could be a big mistake, according to some hiring managers.
| |  Black unemployment 'a serious problem'
While the overall unemployment rate for Americans fell in November, the jobless gap between African-Americans and all other races actually rose, continuing a disturbing trend that has many lawmakers up in arms.
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 Bank failure tally reaches 130
The nation's tally of 2009 bank casualties hit 130 Friday when regulators shuttered a large Ohio bank, an Illinois bank, a Virginia bank and three small Georgia banks.
| |  In real estate, nesting is the new flipping
If flippers were the poster children of the real estate boom, then nesters are becoming the icons of the new housing market.
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 Taxes, taxes everywhere
Speeders doing more than 85 miles per hour in Georgia will soon pay an additional $200 in fines. Racehorse owners in New York now must fork over $10 to enter their steeds in events. And Massachusetts started charging a 5% tax on broadcast satellite service.
| |  Estate tax: Cancel the death knell
Next year was supposed to be a great year for you to die. Not great for you, of course, but for your heirs who would inherit your wealth completely tax free.
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 Why the Copenhagen climate talks matter
It's a massive jamboree, with tempers on both sides of the issue running hot and no final deal in sight.
| |  Why cheap oil is here to stay
Because oil prices have always been directly related to the strength of the economy, a recovery might have seen headlines like these:
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 GM's new CEO Ed Whitacre gets cracking
Say what you will about Ed Whitacre, chairman and interim CEO of General Motors: This is a man who knows what he wants and isn't afraid to make sure that he gets it.
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