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February 22, 2013 - Helaine Olen has had it with self-proclaimed personal finance gurus offering glib advice. In her new book, "Pound Foolish," she describes how middle-class families are being buried by stagnant wages, and the rising costs of housing, education and health care emergencies. Meanwhile, she argues, the replacement of pensions with 401(k)s means financial firms found millions of new customers, but workers ended up worse off. The "personal finance and investment industrial complex" profit while half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
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In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows.
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When you see the headline “Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People” or “Facebook Unveils New Waste of Time,” you know you’re reading Andy Borowitz.
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One chilly afternoon last December, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson slipped out of a car and into the studio on New York’s West Side where Jon Stewart tapes “The Daily Show.”
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will process almost 300,000 fewer injury-compensation claims from former troops next year than it previously estimated.
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Calling the comedian Bassem Youssef “the Egyptian Jon Stewart” has misled people as to why he is important -- and why he’s being attacked by his government.
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The U.S. embassy in Cairo is reviewing its social media policy after briefly shutting its Twitter Inc. account, following Egyptian complaints about a post regarding comedian Jon Stewart’s criticism of President Mohamed Mursi.
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Jon Stewart will take a 12-week summer break from hosting Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” to produce “Rosewater,” a film based on a book by Maziar Bahari.
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The arrest of a satirist who’s been called “Egypt’s Jon Stewart” on charges of insulting Islam and the country’s president raises concern that Egypt’s government is restricting basic liberties, the U.S. State Department said.
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Jay Leno, longtime host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” will step down early next year and be replaced by Jimmy Fallon, as the network seeks younger viewers for the most-popular late-night program.
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