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What the GMAC bailout means for GM; Home prices continue to drop; Who's paying for those holiday sales?; Stock buybacks cause setbacks; Dissecting the auto industry pileup; Circuit breakers: Not just for electricity; A volatile market for home heating oil; Ethanol could kill your small engine

Gaza smuggling tunnels bombed; Dow Chemical down after deal implodes; Electronic show running on low battery; Chalking up the losses of 2008; Not planning on retirement is OK; So what's a hedge fund?; Used car businessman still optimistic; U.K. galleries on quest to save painting

Amid retail slump, Amazon's flying high; Prices fall, if inventory has to move; Weekly Wrap: What's ahead in 2009?; Small bank gets in on the bailout; It's time to ask what Pigou would do; Wall Street 2008: Dead or humbled?; Musicals' new tune: The villain banker

St. Bernanke has a gift for GMAC; Stores put on push to save the season; Got a pink slip? It's time to party; Avoid holiday stress: Hire someone; Our 'Rock Band' needs some practice; Work Life: A party starter; Mexico draws immigrants at holidays

Madoff scam draws lots of lawsuits; The growing rush to refinance; Lego's building a big profit; India's cheap car stirring up noise; AIG buys assets it insures; Christmas is near, we need more cheer; Lessons learned from the rich; Fed's spending is risky business

Portland retailers stuck in the cold; Colombia wants share of Starbucks; Finding the poetry in finance; New York couple has different worries; Legal aid funding on the decline; What if the Big 3 declared bankruptcy?; Letters: Auto industry and philanthropy

Are money market funds in trouble?; Laid-off employees get litigious; Market reforms transform Shenzhen; Florida family lives the simple life; Financial products need new regulation; Tech workers forced to take holiday; The state of commercial real estate

Bush leaves bailout decisions to Obama; RIAA revises illegal-download fight; Retailers are looking beyond Christmas; New packaging may end 'wrap rage'; China deals with the pain of downturn; Weekly Wrap: Bailout, cut and scheme; Obama makes the nativity scene

Schapiro faces huge job in reviving SEC; Wall St. bonuses often more like salary; New rules adopted for credit cards; Wages aren't the real issue in bailout; Even sports leagues are in the red zone; 'I am doing good for people'

OPEC makes record cut in production; Dollar drops on Fed rate cut; How did SEC miss $50 billion fraud?; Decoder: Futures; In financial crisis, it's still a democracy; He's successful -- and undocumented; Time to get your taxes in order; More harm than good in state cuts

Fed drops rate to record low; Employees take hit as pay raises dip; Sign of success: Slovakia to adopt euro; A green gift in carbon offsets; Country club circuit key to Madoff's rise; Layoffs quiet construction business; Madoff scam is part of "the bezzle"

How Madoff could change hedge funds; Fannie Mae to help renters stay; We'd all benefit from higher gas prices; Foreign debt puts Hungarians in crunch; Gadgets smaller in price and size; Glossy catalogs endure in tough times; Will rate cut get banks lending again?

Where the automakers go from here...; Pension, retirement-fund rules eased; Gas prices down, confidence up?; Deconstructing your consumption; Can we see the bottom from here?; Madoff pulls a Ponzi; Taking Stock: Keeping the faith

Bailout for Big 3 hits Senate jam; Got a pink slip? It's time to party; Boys & Girls Club hit hard by economy; Gas prices low while oil imports high; Why bubbles are so hard to see; Use capitalism to do good works; Seeing some bright spots in real estate

Panel has lots of questions for Treasury; GOP senators want to stall auto bill; Fed considers issuing debt of its own; Recycling industry down in the dumps; Frum: Obama rich with ideas, not funds; Best way to donate? Do your research; Faith-based groups may lose funding; Big investors rush to 0% T-bills

Fuel efficiency enters bailout debate; Personal bankruptcies seen mounting; Credit unions getting federal help too; Saving homes through mass appeal; Illinois governor arrested for corruption; Letters: Cars, health care and Santa; Charities face slow season of giving; 2008's big buzzword in giving: Micro

Auto bailout has lots of strings attached; How much should Obama weigh in?; Tribune files for bankruptcy; Make Congress put real skin in stimulus; BBB program helps Muslim charities; What's the LIBOR?; Companies pull back on advertising; Venice billboard plan seen as a bad sign

Job losses mount across all sectors; Economic lessons -- the hard way; Oil price drop not a steadying factor; Weekly Wrap: A few ups, lots of downs; Fund tries making best of bad times; Clinton's debt becomes State issue; Economic anxiety permeates workplace

No clear road yet for carmakers' bailout; Treasury may try mortgage rate cut; How would Treasury's plan work?; Hard part of green energy: plugging in; Recession slows pro sports action; Taking Stock: Global impact of crisis

UAW moves to help carmakers' cause; Bucks don't stop at CEOs' $1 salaries; Goldman looks to online banking; Economy's down, enlistments are up; Doctors' drug-industry ties made public; U.K.'s prudent savers feel punished; Where's the bailout for human capital?; Michelle Obama's style closely watched; Ugly economy trims beauty spending