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&#8220;The dollar today is what the penny was to the grandparent&#8217;s generation,&#8221; said Marshal Cohen, an analyst for the research firm NPD Group. &#8220;When you can get something for a dollar and it works, people get excited.&#8221;
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When a hurricane threatens, making a plan and gearing up for emergencies is imperative. Economic emergencies happen too, but it may be less obvious how to prepare. Here are seven steps you should take to weather any financial storm.
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A battle broke out for control of Wachovia Friday as Wells Fargo signed a $15.1 billion agreement to buy the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, while Citigroup and the federal regulators backing its earlier deal insisted that Citi&#8217;s takeover bid go forward.
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U.S. employers slashed payrolls by 159,000 in September, the most in more than five years, a worrisome sign that the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession.
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Assigning blame for recent events in the financial markets is today&#8217;s most pressing political issue. Unintended cause and effect are both complex and subtle, but recognizing the culprits is important if we want to avoid giving them additional power and responsibility.
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Veteran banker Glenn Rust sat down with The Daily Progress to discuss the Charlottesville region&#8217;s economy, the nation&#8217;s financial crisis and his plans for Virginia National Bank&#8217;s future growth.
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Updated 3:30 p.m. &#8220;I now expect that we will indeed have a plan that can pass the House, pass the Senate (and) be signed by the president,&#8221; said Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah.

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President Bush is bringing presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain into negotiations on a $700 billion rescue of Wall Street as Democrats and Republicans near agreement on a bailout plan with more protections for taxpayers and new help for distressed homeowners.
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&#8220;The financial markets are in quite fragile condition and I think absent a plan they will get worse,&#8221; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
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          <title>Embattled Circuit City head quits</title>
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Top executive Philip J. Schoonover resigned yesterday, four months after he asked shareholders for more time to turn around Circuit City Stores Inc.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress on Tuesday to quickly pass a $700 billion financial bailout, warning that letting problems persist would have dire consequences for the national economy.
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For decades, Kodachrome was the standard choice for professional color photography and avant-garde filmmaking. At its peak, a reverential Paul Simon crooned &#8220;Mama, don&#8217;t take my Kodachrome away&#8221; in 1973. It&#8217;s the only film to have a state park named after it &#8212; photogenic Kodachrome Basin State Park in the red-rock canyons of southern Utah.
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BRIC nations have surpassed expectations. The original Goldman Sachs analysis projected the four economies would comprise over 10 percent of the global output by the end of the decade. A year and a half early, they comprise nearly 13 percent.
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.&nbsp;
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The Bush administration sketched out a multi-faceted effort on Friday to confront the worst U.S. financial crisis in decades, outlining a program that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to buy up bad mortgages and other toxic debt. Relief washed over Wall Street with a surge of buying.
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&#8220;When they are trying to return to more meals at home, they don&#8217;t want to start from scratch like we would a generation or two ago,&#8221; said Tim Hammonds, president and CEO at the Food Marketing Institute, an industry trade group. &#8220;That&#8217;s why the prepared foods are so popular.&#8221;
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One in every five people in the world lives in communist China. Unlike other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the Chinese lack representative government, the rule of law administered by independent judges, basic human rights, freedom of the media, independent universities and the right of workers to move freely. Even the constitution makes clear that the government has no limits or accountability to the Chinese people.
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This year&#8217;s lunchroom will be less about convenience and more about the bottom line, said Marcia Mogelonsky, senior research analyst with Mintel International in Chicago. Parents will be shopping for deals but still wanting all the basics - fruits, veggies, proteins and fun things like chips and cookies. It won&#8217;t be easy, she said.
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The modern-day Indian republic was born in 1950. During the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, India was a prominent nonaligned country. It was highly socialistic with the government exercising control over every aspect of the economy. These restrictive policies caused extremely low growth rates, derisively dubbed the &#8220;Hindu rate of growth.&#8221;
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Uncle Sam has just become the 800 pound gorilla in the U.S. mortgage market.
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The facility, set to open in spring 2009, will be located at the village center of the Old Trail mixed-use development.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has been trying to remake itself and regain its former glory and respect. The country&#8217;s fall from superpower to emerging market deeply wounded its people&#8217;s pride.&nbsp;
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.&nbsp;
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&#8220;Airline travel is airline travel &#8212; it&#8217;s been bad for a long time,&#8221; Chris Bardasian, an American Airlines frequent flyer, said recently at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. &#8220;I suspect prices will go up, fewer people will travel, and if you&#8217;re willing to pay the price it will be fine.&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Personal incomes plunged in July while consumer spending slowed significantly as the impact of billions of dollars in government rebate checks began to wane.
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The economy shifted to a higher gear in the spring, growing at its fastest pace in nearly a year as foreign buyers snapped up U.S. exports and tax rebates spurred shoppers at home.
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A widely watched housing index released Tuesday showed home prices dropping by the sharpest rate ever in the second quarter.
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Sales of existing homes rose 3.1 percent in July, surpassing expectations, as buyers snapped up deeply discounted properties in parts of the country hit hardest by the housing bust.
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With planned &#8216;beer trail,&#8217; Charlottesville area brew-ers hope emulate Virginia&#8217;s wine industry.


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In 2003, the Goldman Sachs Global Economics Department predicted the economic and geopolitical influence of Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC countries) would become increasingly visible in the developed world and even dominate it by 2050. These countries have averaged a total return on investment in their stock markets of 38.28 percent over the past five years, up 5.02 percent over the past year.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <link>http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/business/local/article/cbj_property_transfers_building_permits7/26589/</link>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the Devil&#8217;s Backbone beer brewery located just down the mountain from the Wintergreen ski and golf resort in Nelson County.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday the financial crisis that has pounded the country &#8212; coupled with higher inflation &#8212; is taking a toll on the economy and poses a major challenge to Fed policymakers as they try to restore stability.
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Circuit City says it&#8217;s still considering a sale of the Richmond consumer electronics retailer.
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Wholesale inflation surged in July, leaving prices for the past year rising at the fastest pace in 27 years, according to government data released Tuesday.
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Amish and Mennonite and even non-religious small-scale growers in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Tennessee, New York and other states are mindful of the money to be made from this emerging relationship with big distributors. And they are willing to engage in some horse trading to create business relationships.
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.&nbsp;
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Financial information on the Internet is excessive and changes daily. This overload leads to excessive trading, which in turn results in lower returns. Studies suggest that analysts who depend on all this overwhelming advice make poorer decisions even though they feel more confident about them.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:19:01 EDT</pubDate>
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Spencer Connerat, formerly of Collective Resources Corp. and a CPC stockholder, said the suit is an attempt to force the city to specify if and when it inked a confidentiality agreement with the CPC. Such an agreement would be needed to allow the city to bid on CPC&#8217;s assets.
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Real estate agents say the cost of gas is putting a damper on home sales in some rural areas.
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Even as consumers face soaring energy costs, rising food prices and higher mortgages or rent, it seems clear they&#8217;re not prepared to forgo many of life&#8217;s little treats &#8212; alcohol, cigarette and candy makers are all reporting healthy sales amid the gloom.
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Although the herd mentality may help you find greener pastures if you are a bison, it won&#8217;t help you find untrampled pastures. In investments, every bison ahead of you has already run the price up, and the only buyers of your investment are behind you. Straggling along at the back of the herd doesn&#8217;t stop you from reaching the watering hole, but being toward the end of a run-up in the markets can be as deadly as drinking from fouled water.
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Clinical Data Inc., a global biotechnology firm based in Massachusetts, has agreed to buy a Charlottesville biotech company in a deal that could be ultimately worth up to $66 million.
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&#8220;We definitely believe that that there is no more risk to the public at this point,&#8221; said Thomas Jefferson Health District pathologist Elizabeth Davies
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Think of confidence as a continuum: Lack of confidence is paralyzing, self-confidence is good, but overconfidence is deadly.
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Don Rich figures his decision to open a local Segway dealership puts him ahead of the curve of a movement toward communities in which residents don&#8217;t depend on cars to get around.
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The nation&#8217;s unemployment rate climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 percent in July as employers cut 51,000 jobs, dashing the hopes of an influx of young people looking for summer work.
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About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers
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Wachovia Corp. reported a surprisingly large second-quarter loss Tuesday, deflating Wall Street&#8217;s hopes that the nation&#8217;s big banks are weathering the credit crisis well.
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Decide to become a homeowner and, inevitably, you&#8217;ll have to confront your credit score.
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Local business announcements.&nbsp;
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.&nbsp;
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It&#8217;s an anxious summer for watermen harvesting the Chesapeake&#8217;s best-loved seafood, the blue crab. The way some see it, the crabbing business here isn&#8217;t just dying. It&#8217;s already dead.
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Researchers have identified dozens of mental shortcuts. One heuristic that the brain uses to solve complex evaluations is to make an initial guess and then adjust from that point as we receive additional information to find a better answer. This mental process is called &#8220;anchoring.&#8221;
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Consumer prices shot up in June at the second fastest pace in 26 years with two-thirds of the surge blamed on soaring energy prices.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in &#8220;no danger of failing.&#8221;
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 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Tuesday the fragile economy is facing &#8220;numerous difficulties&#8221; despite the Fed&#8217;s aggressive interest rate reductions and other fortifying steps.
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.&nbsp;
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Six months after striking a distribution deal with Anheuser-Busch, Crozet-based Starr Hill Brewery says its beer can be bought across Virginia, and plans for more Southeast distribution are in the works.


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