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Building a Portfolio That Will Stay Afloat When Inflation Returns

Financial planners say now is the time to protect portfolios, before the effects of inflation, when it comes, can limit investors’ strategies.… Continue

Added by Alex on June 13, 2009 at 10:58am — No Comments

How Do I Know You’re Not Bernie Madoff?

In the wake of the Ponzi scheme, investors are asking wealth managers tougher questions, including how to vet what’s on their statement.… Continue

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Little Movement on Wall Street

Commodities and technology stocks, which have helped fuel a three-month rally, led the market in a modest pullback early Friday.… Continue

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Six Flags Files for Bankruptcy

Six Flags, the big theme park operator, filed for bankruptcy in after failing to reach an agreement with lenders over a plan to reorganize its debt outside of court.… Continue

Added by Alex on June 13, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Ex-Officer Gets Prison Time for Shooting, but Is Free on Appeal

Rafael Lora, who was off duty, killed a drunken driver who had crashed into several parked cars on a Bronx street.… Continue

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Pedicab Safety Rules Were Never Put Into Effect

An accident that seriously injured a pedicab driver in New York highlighted the lack of city enforcement.… Continue

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Transit Agency Says It Erred in Disbanding Emergency Team

The elimination of a unit created to help police and firefighters in subway emergencies was mishandled, the head of New York City Transit said.… Continue

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Attempt to Open New York Senate Falters

The balance of power rests in large part with Hiram Monserrate, a Democratic defector who also happens to be accused of slashing a companion with broken glass.… Continue

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On High, a Fresh Outlook

The first phase of the High Line is one of the most thoughtful public spaces in New York in years.… Continue

Added by Alex on June 10, 2009 at 1:43am — No Comments

Captain Recalls Impact With Hudson

As hearings began on the January emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger III recalled the splashdown of the flight in the river.… Continue

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A Supreme Court Nomination Stirs Up Bad Memories

Jeffrey Deskovic, wrongly imprisoned until vindicated by DNA, had a brush with Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, during his long years behind bars.… Continue

Added by Alex on June 10, 2009 at 1:42am — No Comments

Feeling Slighted, Rich Patron Led Albany Revolt

A frustrated Tom Golisano secretly planned with Republicans to persuade two Democrats to join them in ousting then Senate majority leader Malcolm A. Smith.… Continue

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New Scrutiny of Judge’s Most Controversial Case

A case involving firefighters’ discrimination claims is likely to attract questions at the Supreme Court confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.… Continue

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In Lebanon Vote, Stark Options, Complex Choices

Christians are divided between a Hezbollah partner and a pro-American alliance in the parliamentary election.… Continue

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Chinese Company Buying G.M.’s Hummer Brand

A machinery company with ambitions to become a carmaker is the buyer, at an undisclosed price.… Continue

Added by Alex on June 3, 2009 at 1:14am — No Comments

New-Vehicle Sales Reach a 2009 High

New-vehicle sales in the U.S. climbed to their highest levels of the year in May, but demand for vehicles is still below the level automakers need to make a profit.… Continue

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Detroit’s Woes Wound an Army of Suppliers

Auto suppliers, which employ more workers than the car companies themselves, find their fortunes directly tied, for better or worse, to the automakers.… Continue

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Judge in Brazil Stays Ruling Ordering Return of Boy to U.S.

The child, Sean Goldman, 9, was moved to Brazil by his mother in 2004. An order Monday that he be returned to his father, a New Jersey man, was stayed by a higher court judge on Tuesday. … Continue

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Slumping Economy Tests Aid System Tied to Jobs

For nearly two decades, Americans have built a safety net that is tough on those who fail to work and rewards those who do. Insisting that the poor should work and agreeing that work should pay, policy makers spent the 1990s cutting welfare rolls while pouring billions of dollars into programs like wage and child care subsidies aimed at the working poor. But joblessness, not welfare dependency, is now the national scourge. And as a poverty conference convened here last week, custodians of the s… Continue

Added by Alex on June 1, 2009 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Minnesota Court Hears Senate Case

Lawyers for Norm Coleman, the Republican who is fighting a recount battle for a Senate seat with Al Franken, a Democrat, faced sharply skeptical questioning from justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court in a crucial hearing on this case this morning. Mr. Coleman, who most recently held the seat, is challenging the rulings of a state recount board and a lower court, which declared Mr. Franken the winner of the race by hundreds of votes. Associate Justice Christopher J. Dietzen said Mr. Coleman’s… Continue

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