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Narrowing charitable giving can lead to a bigger payoff
Bigger contributions to fewer causes means those contributions can do more good than many smaller gifts to many organizations. Updated Dec. 29, 2012
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Will retailers rebound after weak holiday season?
As signs emerge that holiday sales this year grew at the weakest pace since 2008, investors are dumping retail stocks. Analysts are crowing about the missing "consumer engine" without which the economy may stagnate.
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Fiscal cliff: No need for investors to panic - yet
A dive over the cliff is unlikely to be as catastrophic as it is unnerving, advisers said.
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Farrell: First 'real' job prompts questions about investing
QI'm 26 now and just got my first "career" job. So I've been thinking more about investments. I have a macroeconomic/fiscal cliff question for you. While I intend to invest in the way that's best for me, if I were being completely unselfish wouldn't bonds be better? After all, sales of stock (other than IPOs) just shift money from one investor to another and sap money from corporations through dividends. Things like municipal bonds, on the other hand, can result in necessary infrastructure being built. Especially with talk of changing the capital gains tax rate, it seems like it would be easy enough to raise it for stocks but leave it at 15 percent for bonds, and indirectly promote huge private investments in infrastructure.
Updated Dec. 22, 2012
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