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Tuesday Top 5: Staying Afloat While Jobless

July 27, 2010 – 4:21 pm

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. If you’re unemployed at the moment, we don’t have to tell you that the situation out there is pretty grim. But you’re not alone: The Senate passed a bill last week extending [...]

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The Role of Testosterone in Money Management

August 28, 2009 – 7:34 pm

A new study that examines the connection between gender and finance is raising some eyebrows. Could it be that your tolerance for risk in money and career is determined by your hormones? Researchers at Northwestern and the University of Chicago are publishing their findings in an upcoming issue of Economic Sciences: “Higher-testosterone women are more [...]

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The Brighter Side of High Unemployment Rates

April 20, 2009 – 10:15 am

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the unemployment rate rose from 8.1 to 8.5 percent in March of 2009.  Since the current recession officially started in December of 2007 just over five million people have lost their jobs, two-thirds of them in the last five months.  All of us are affected by this, [...]

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