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General Motors seems poised to file for Chapter 11 restructuring in U.S. Bankruptcy Court by Tuesday, but consumers are protected, analysts say.

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If just one big mistake had brought General Motors to its knees, maybe it could have been fixed and averted its march into bankruptcy court today. But what put the huge company it once sold more than half the cars in the U.S. market and now controls less than 20% in such a hole was a series of missteps, an inability to change lanes quickly when the market or government veered and a heaping dose …

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The U.S. dollar spiked when the economic crisis was peaking, and it’s falling now that a recovery’s in sight. What gives?

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$55,000+ of new debt per household in the last few months! We are broke and the only way we can spend like this is to take money from our children’s future savings, earnings, and jobs potentials. This is beyond selfish.

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Now more than ever, why you need a good handle on your credit score, and what steps you can take now to push that number higher.

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The U.S. dollar spiked when the economic crisis was peaking, and it’s falling now that a recovery’s in sight. What gives? The relationship between the country’s economy and its currency, it turns out, is more complicated now than ever as the government assumes a larger role in propping up the financial system and encouraging economic growth.

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Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits, the national debt and other government promises, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

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At a time when it seems the mass exit of nurses in Ghana to seek better opportunities elsewhere is being clogged, many nurses pursuing further education at the universities are threatening to leave the profession.

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The debt on the shoulders of the US Federal Government has reached astronomical proportions, topping out at nearly $64 trillion, the highest by far of any country.

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In the car industry, few things stand still for very long. Yesterday though, the future for 5,000 Vauxhall workers in Luton and at Ellesmere Port in Merseyside seemed a little more stable. For days the negotiations surrounding the disposal of General Motors’ European operations, including Vauxhall, have become something of an international soap opera. The Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, has …

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