Despite the faintly good news about the job market, the housing market and real estate prices continue to create problems for homeowners. Personal bankruptcies are at a five year high and some of the reasons behind that number are the continuing foreclosures on homes. A new study released this week finds that in a time when more than one in every five home owners owe more on their homes that they are worth, more of us think walking away from a mortgage is acceptable.

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Survey: 36% Say Walking Away from a Mortgage ‘Acceptable’

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The housing market has, in the past, helped the U.S.

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Existing Home Sales Fall 27% to 15 Year Low

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Dubbed the “Grim Sleeper” for his long pauses between murders, Lonni Franklin Jr.

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The Jedi could influence and control the minds of others by making use of the Jedi mind trick. Jedi Mind, Inc. claims their wireless headset uses brainwaves, both conscious and non-conscious to allow users to play games, run software and..

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George Lucas Sues Over ‘Jedi Mind’ Headset

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The Hollywood hit, Minority Report was a sci-fi thriller that showed technology capable of predicting crime, and police using this knowledge to stop criminals before they even start.

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Reed Smith has joined a small but growing group of large law firms that have decided to cut associate salaries as one way of adjusting to the economic downturn. The firm, as first reported on the blog Above the Law, said in a memo Wednesday that it would cut all existing U.S

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