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Nicolas Cage: Movie star, foreclosure victim
 Even Academy Award winners are suffering from financial woes this recession. Actor Nicolas Cage lost two homes in New Orleans worth a total of $6.8 million in a foreclosure auction Thursday.
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 Make money in 2010: Your home
After three years of slumping house prices, the end of the real estate bust may finally be in sight. Home sales are rising, inventories are shrinking, and most economists believe values nationwide will hit bottom in the second half of the year -- but not before falling another 5% to 10% first.
| |  Get ready for flatscreen TV price wars
If you're in the market for a new flatscreen TV this holiday season, you're in luck.
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 Madoff's Mets jacket sells for ... $14,500
It was a very good day for the victims of Bernie Madoff. Several hundred of his former possessions were auctioned off in New York City on Saturday, and most of them sold for prices that crushed their high estimates.
| |  Buffett: Put out economic fire then deal with deficit
Billionaire Warren Buffett offered some advice to Uncle Sam on Friday: Time it right, but tackle the nation's enormous federal deficit.
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 Cop car war heats up
Ford Motor Co. is firing back following General Motors' announcement that it would begin selling a police-only Chevrolet sedan in the United States in early 2011.
| |  Stock rally: Two weeks and counting
Stocks rallied Friday to end higher for the second week in a row, amid heightened confidence that the pace of the economic recovery is gaining momentum.
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 Out of prison, out of a job, out of luck
If you think it's tough getting a job during a recession, imagine what it's like for an ex-convict.
| |  Wal-Mart: Sales environment still 'difficult'
Wal-Mart Stores reported a third-quarter profit Thursday that beat analysts' estimates while its store sales fell in the period amid a "difficult" selling environment.
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 First-time homebuyers leading market back
Propelled by the first-time homebuyers tax credit, nearly half of home sales are now being made by first-time purchasers, according to an industry report released Friday.
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