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  • The threat of a recession has been looming in the mouths of economists for several months now. But Fortune Magazine's Allan Sloan says it's needless for investors to worry about something that won't affect them so soon.

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  • When we want to know more about tech toys and gadgets, we call Kevin Pereira from G4 television. He brought some good stuff to play with — just in time for holiday shopping.

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  • Stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson talks with Kai Ryssdal about what happened on Wall Street this week and what may lie ahead.

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  • Some employers are trying to cushion the blow of health-care costs to workers by offering benefits that are health-related and some that aren't. Mary-Rose Abraham reports.

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  • Middle-class families have seen their incomes grow over the past couple of decades. But commentator Robert Frank says they're still having a hard time keeping up.

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  • Another year, another trip through the tangled web of Medicare options. Tess asks Kimberly Lankford to help decrypt Medicare Part D before the end of open enrollment this month.

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  • Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. This week, a phrase of last resort: "hard money mortgage."

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  • Looking to cut your energy bills? Act fast and you could cut your tax burden at the same time. Tess asks Andrea Coombes how to take advantage of deductions expiring in 2008.

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  • President Bush has announced his plan to help homeowners in crisis but is it too little too late? Tess asks Nick Retsinas at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.

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  • With a Pepsi-backed promotion of about a billion music download giveaways, Amazon might be the best competitor against Apple yet. Doug Krizner talks to Billboard's Bill Werde about whether they have a shot at grabbing market share.

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