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  • Many Americans are unprepared for retirement — and an economics professor believes government intervention is necessary to create a viable retirement system.

  • Europeans get a minimum of three weeks of paid vacation, but many Americans get none. While Americans may work more, it doesn't necessarily mean they're being more productive.

  • Jul 27, 2012

    What is hard work?

    Hard work is what made the United States, but there's now concern Americans aren't working hard enough.

  • One parent wonders why many adults disapprove of where her son is putting his hard-earned lemonade stand money towards.

  • Artist Sipho Mabona used the "wet folding" technique to twist and shape the locusts to make sure George Washington's faces and the words "In God We Trust" show prominently on the locusts' bodies.
    Tess Vigeland

    A Los Angeles origami exhibit features an installation made completely out of sheets of uncut U.S. dollar bills.

  • Jul 20, 2012

    Downsizing a life

    Sifting through years of stuff is one of the most difficult parts of moving. A new start-up will empty your house of all its clutter for a minor fee.

  • United States' Nastia Liukin, here at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, is one of the lucky athletes to have about nine sponsors over the last four years, a rare feat.
    KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

    There's glory in the winning gold, but possibly even better is for an athlete to land a well-paying sponsorship in the years leading up to and after the Olympics. But gold doesn't always mean green for athletes.

  • Jamie Nieto competes in the men's high jump final during the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in Eugene, Ore.
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    Thirty-five-year-old Olympic high jumper Jamie Nieto talks about struggling in the pursuit of gold.

  • Richard Cordray, seen here swearing in at the beginning of his confirmation hearing in Sept. 2011, as director of the CFPB.
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    Around 40 percent of credit reports have mistakes on them — and it is a pain to get them fixed. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it will start scrutinizing credit reporting agencies.

  • Many European economies are begging for Germany to share its wealth with them. Where did the German culture of frugality come from?

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