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[description] An early look at the market with Financial Editor Dave Caruso.

[description] Surveillance video shows a dye pack exploding on a suspected bank robber after he enters a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pawnshop.

[description] Michelle Talks About Crazy Government Spending

[description] An early look at the market with Financial Editor Dave Caruso.

[description] FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times Listen now: Good morning and good afternoon. My name is Christopher Penn, host of the Financial Aid Podcast, and this is the Student Loan Network Live Roundtable: How to Pay for College in Uncertain Times. I have with me here today five experts from the financial [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/16/fap779-roundtable-discussion-paying-for-college-in-uncertain-times/" });

[description] FAP777: Birthday, Sallie Mae Student Loan Consolidation, HELOC Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Happy Student Loan Network anniversary Monique Leonard! + The Financial Aid Podcast celebrates 3 years on the air! + Hat tips to Mitch Joel, Erik & Diana, and pretty much my entire address book for this story: + Chronicle: Sallie Mae (ticker: SLM) announced today [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP777: Birthday, Sallie Mae Student Loan Consolidation, HELOC", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/14/fap777-birthday-sallie-mae-student-loan-consolidation-heloc/" });

[description] Rape allegations against an Everett basketball coach, a bumpy road for the Olympic torch, these stories, and more in the WBZ Afternoon News.

[description] Massachusetts could soon have the second highest tobacco tax in the country and the price of gasoline goes up again tops our news this Monday morning.

[description] The spate of violence continues in Iraq, with more clashes between Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias. In one of many such raids this week, three Americans were seriously wounded by a rocket attack on the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. We speak with Washington Post reporter Sudarsan Raghavan in Baghdad. How hard is it to secure a mortgage? As foreclosures continue and money becomes harder to find? We speak to Amy Tierce, a mortgage lender in Needham, Massachusetts, about some of the challenges consumers face. Credit scores are being closely scrutinized. Appraisals are, too. Several months into the mortgage market crisis, we look at the new shape the industry is taking. Traditional banks and Credit Unions are once again taking the lead in mortgages, and they are returning to the lending practices of a generation ago. We speak with Vikas Bajaj, business reporter for The New York Times. Canadian writer Sheila Heti recently started the website "I Dream of Hillary

[description] We get an update on the presidential campaigns as we head into the last weekend before what have shaped up to be must win primaries for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. Our guest is John Harwood, Political Correspondent for the New York Times. The price of crude oil has hit a record high, closing at $102.59s on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday. Rallying oil is pushing up prices at the pump with the Energy Department predicting gas could hit an average of $3.40 a gallon this spring and some analysts say the $4.00 mark isn't far off. Soaring energy prices are bringing new attention to the nation's most abundant natural resource - coal. Our guests are Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana and Henry Lee, Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. As the sub-prime mortgage market collapse bleeds to other areas of the economy, and credit markets remain troubled, politicians and o