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• Billion bills are being checked, problem with new $100s

  

  Looks like those high tech new $100 bills that I wrote about a few months ago are just too difficult to print. CNBC was first to break the story....You can read it here.

  
  

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• What Obama's new tax deal means for your finances

  The first sign of Washington's new tax deal would be a boost to your paycheck, starting next month.

  For 107,500 jobless Floridians, unemployment benefits would be restored. And anyone planning their estate now knows what the tax law will be for the next two years.

  President Barack Obama announced on Monday that' [...]

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• Foreclosure: Lender Processing Services

  Robo-signers, kickbacks, misleading judges, punishing law firms, downplaying its legal trouble to investors. Lender Processing Services, says this special report from Reuters, is feeling the pressure. The Jacksonville firm, which reportedly handles half the nation's foreclosures, is the target of investigations by federal prosecutors, the FBI, Florida's Attorney General, [...]

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• Your money Q&A: Can I get the $1,500 federal tax credit for my AC?

  I live part of the year in Florida, where I installed an energy-efficient air conditioning unit. My question is, will that qualify for the $1,500 federal tax credit? – Boynton Beach

  The answer depends upon you. The federal tax credit – up to $1,500 or 30 percent of the cost of [...]

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• Foreclosure: Chase holds events for homeowners

  Chase is getting busy in South Florida, scheduling several free home preservation events in which troubled borrowers can talk in person to loan counselors.

  Here's the list of where and when the events will take place, plus the documents that homeowners should bring along.

  Chase Homeownership Center Sunrise
  When: Dec. 13' [...]

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• Foreclosure attorney David Stern sued by former employees

  CBS 4 is reporting that former employees of David J. Stern's foreclosure law firm have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that they didn't receive proper notice before they were laid off.

  One of the four filing suit, Nikki Mack, says that she went to work even when she was going through [...]

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• Scam alert: Test your skills

  Think you can't be fooled?

  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has put together a quiz to test whether you might be taken in by a scam. The quiz goes over the popular ones - work at home schemes, identity theft, official-looking requests for your personal information, among others. Check it out' [...]

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