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Clear out the holiday catalogues, the Christmas cards and the coupons, and your mailbox may look less than festive. Now that the credit card industry is required to warn you about any changes they're planning, you should be scrutinizing what you think is only junk mail. Below, Senate Banking Chairman Christopher Dodd.
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By Michelle Singletary
The Treasury marks the value of its gold at $42 an ounce, the price settled on in 1973. But spot gold is heading toward $1,100 per ounce, and the Treasury is embracing a Cold War relic of a price?
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MoneyGram settles
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