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7 strategies to avoid the college debt trap

Is it worth it to pay $200,000 for a liberal arts education, especially if it means taking out loans? One of my 20-something Kiplinger colleagues answers bluntly: "If I had realized how much debt I was getting into, I would have gone to my state school instead of an expensive private college."

Labour must free itself from its ideological shackles

The unions, and the Labour Party, have been corrupted by the power of the state, argues Janet Daley.

Real Estate Weekly: Home-buyer tax credit not likely to make an encore

The real-estate industry was abuzz with chatter earlier this week about the government offering another home-buyer tax credit, after Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary, said on CNN that it was too early to tell if the credit would make a return.

Even Wild Government Spending Can't Stop Deflation Now

Now that August is finally over, which turned out to be the worst August in 10 years, investors are now looking for direction. The big question on most people's minds is, will it be inflation or deflation?

The political consequences of stagnation

MY apologies to T. S. Eliot, but September, not April, is the cruelest month. Before 9/11/2001, there was 9/11/1973, when Gen. Augusto Pinochet toppled the Allende government in Chile and ushered in a 17-year reign of terror. More recently, on 9/15/2008, Lehman Brothers went bust and torpedoed the global economy, turning what had been a Wall Street crisis into a near-death experience for the ...