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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) ? Eight candidates took part in Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, but President Barack Obama’s campaign focused its attention almost exclusively on one: Mitt Romney. A day after Representative Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, and Texas Governor Rick Perry debated the economy with the former Massachusetts governor in New Hampshire, the Obama campaign held [...]

NEW YORK ? Talk about a backdoor cut. The announcement Thursday that negotiations to end the NBA lockout would resume was followed by news that some players are investigating the possibility of decertifying the union. The NBA players union said it would begin negotiating with the owners again on Saturday, maintaining that the players are [...]

By Naomi O’Leary LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) – Financial traders have a new toy: Bitcoin, a digital currency variously dismissed as a Ponzi scheme or lauded as the greatest invention since the Internet. Unlike conventional fiat money and other digital currencies, Bitcoin runs through a peer-to-peer network, independent of central control. Bitcoins are currently worth [...]

Good reads from around the Web. Lee and Rob, two up-and-coming personal finance bloggers in the UK, are calling for better financial education in schools. Over on Five Pence Piece, Lee writes: Right now students leave the family unit to enter further or university education ? or the even more daunting world of work ? [...]

James Gandy removes fuel oil washed on to the Mount Manganui beach from the Liberian-flagged container ship Rena stuck aground on a reef off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. The 775-foot (236-meter) ship has 1,700 tons of fuel oil and 2,100 shipping containers on board as it sits on the [...]