Melissa Harris' Chicago Confidential
A Kennedy on a quest to do more - July 31, 2011 - I had just 30 minutes to talk with Christopher Kennedy, the outgoing chief of Chicago's Merchandise Mart and the eighth of Robert F. Kennedy's 11 children. So I got to the point.
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Ask Rex Huppke: I Just Work Here
I Just Work Here: Handling the office stinker - August 1, 2011 - Did anyone consider just painting the debt ceiling the same color as the walls? It really would make the whole room look bigger.
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Gregory Karp
Why we blunder when we buy - July 22, 2011 - Consumers might say they like easy buying decisions, but they don't.
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Gail MarksJarvis
Emerging-market booms in doubt as China tackles internal challenges - August 3, 2011 - With many American consumers crippled by debt and job distress, investment advisers have urged clients to look past the United States and devote some money to emerging markets.
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Mary Ellen Podmolik
Many workers still priced out of housing market - July 29, 2011 - The Chicago area's ranking in a new study of home affordability looks promising, until you start to look at paychecks.
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Phil Rosenthal
In deal's wake, has economy already started retreating? - August 3, 2011 - Whatever solace may be taken from the U.S. economy being tugged back from the precipice of disaster with a D.C. debt-limit compromise is tempered by the suspicion that the whole thing could still backslide into the abyss of another recession.
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Ameet Sachdev's Chicago Law
U. of C. professor argues privatization of public assets just like borrowing money - July 22, 2011 - Mayor Rahm Emanuel may want to update his summer reading list with an article by a law professor at the University of Chicago.
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Jon Yates' "What's Your Problem?"
Problem Solver: Hotmail freeze burns user - August 4, 2011 - The night before she left on vacation, Sharon Brown's Hotmail account was working swimmingly.
Robert Pagliarini: Your Other 8 Hours
Start living your miracle life - August 1, 2011 - Last week I asked the Miracle Question from Solution-Focused therapy, which is simply, "If a miracle occurs tonight while you sleep that solves all of your problems, how would you know when you woke up that a miracle occurred? What would be different?" The first step, of course, is answering the...
Joyce Lain Kennedy
Keep network charged to jump-start job search - August 3, 2011 - Q. After looking for eight months, I found what I thought was a great job and tried to save time by shutting down my networking efforts. Four months later, my great job went south when my new employer closed shop. Ginning up my network again is harder than I thought, and I found out that people...
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Mary Umberger
The down-payment hurdle - July 29, 2011 - Tight credit is leaving the housing market gasping for air. That's the drum beat from many corners of the real estate industry, which has been complaining loudly that restrictive mortgage-lending standards are a leading reason housing can't seem to climb out of its very deep hole.
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Bob Weber
An inflated tire diagnosis? - August 1, 2011 - Q: I have a 2003 Chrysler Town & Country with 76,000 miles. It has begun displaying the message "Service Tire System Soon/Read Owners Manual." Since all tires are inflated with nitrogen I am wondering if it may be a TPMS malfunction. Any thoughts?
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