Tag: money

Following a 109 billion bailout agreement thousands of Greeks have protested against austerity measures and even greater debt.
This report goes to the grassroots and asks how ordinary Greeks view the crisis.

There will be more children in the US this year with bankrupt parents than divorced parents. With around 120,000 people declared bankrupt each month, many of the squeezed middle-class see the American dream slipping away.

Barack Obama has moved on from Chicago onto the White House. In the meantime, his hometown has been crumbling in poverty and unemployment.
RT's Anastasia Churkina travels to the forgotten turned dangerous neighborhoods of the city.

Skiers should give Vancouver a swerve if they want to stay in the black as the Canadian city is the most expensive destination, according to analysis for Virgin Moneys Travel Insurance.

And if they are looking for a bargain skiers should head for the slopes of Slovakia, according to Virgin Money Travel Insurances value for travel research.

Vancouver took the title as the most expensive, with the cost for two people coming in at close to £3,500 while Bratislava in Slovakia was the cheapest on the index costing a sixth at just £545.94 for two people.

As the stores fill with toys and more and more holiday catalogues arrive daily in the mail, many parents find themselves inundated with outrageous holiday gift requests from their kids.

"'Tis the season for kids to chant, 'Buy, buy, buy,' and for the media to encourage huge spending on the latest toys, games and electronic devices," says Brent Hatch, who co-authored the book Raising a G-Rated Family in an X-Rated World (Greentree Pub., 2006), with his wife, Phelecia Hatch.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Las Vegas has cleaned up since its days as a magnet for ill-gotten mobster gains, but a Canadian insider trading scam has exposed the smaller-scale money laundering still going on in the desert city's casinos.

Canadian Stanko Grmovsek admitted in a Toronto court earlier this year to making $9 million with a law school buddy in a 14-year illegal scheme. Court documents show he said he laundered some of it by gambling wads of cash on games like blackjack in Vegas's world-famous casino strip.

If music industry executives were any more out of date they probably could've fathered themselves...

Dispelling yet another industry myth this week is the (in my opinion not remotely startling) revelation that users who download music illegally over the Internet actually spend more money buying it than anyone else.

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During the heat of the summer air conditioning can seem like a godsend -- that is, until the electric bill shows up. Paying for electricity is the price we all have to pay to make our home livable. I know you've thought how nice it would be to cut down on the amount of power your air conditioner uses. You can help your air conditioner out (and more importantly, keep money in your pocket) by reducing humidity so your air conditioner doesn't need to deal with it.

LONDON (Reuters) - Couples are struggling to stay together as they face money worries and the threat of redundancy in the economic downturn, said counseling service Relate, which has seen its workload soar.

Relate on Saturday reported a rise of almost 60 percent in the number of couples seeking help with their relationships in October and November this year as compared with last year.

If you believe that your male colleague is being paid more than you and unfairly so, there are three main options you can follow