Mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in decades for the ninth time in 10 weeks, as concerns grow that the economy is weakening.

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It’s getting tougher for U.S. savers to find a bank where they won’t end up paying to keep their money safe.

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The person at your office who routinely brings in millions of bucks worth of business probably doesn't have to worry about job security. Or begging the boss for a raise. Or advocating for a promotion.

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In my last post, I mapped the projected growth in service jobs across America's metro regions. Today, I look at a subset of those higher-paying, higher-skill jobs for knowledge, professional, and creative workers that make up the creative class.

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Unselfish workers who are the first to offer to help with projects are among those that co-workers like the least, according to four separate social psychology studies.

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When counselors asked the children at the Plas Timoun psychological therapy center to draw, what came out on the paper were images of crumbled houses, severed limbs and blood spurting from people trapped under the ruins.

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Lending to the private sector in the 16-nation euro zone picked up steam in July, but continued weakness in business lending and overall loan demand offer danger signs for the region's recovery, economists said.

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The business school admissions test gets an overhaul in 2012, and GMAT test prep companies are tweaking their offerings

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Five years after Hurricane Katrina threw the futures of eight New Orleans colleges into disarray, students and faculty members are returning this fall to campuses that have been changed fundamentally by the disaster.

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Don't forget to team up with State Farm® and MLB® to support NBMBAA. You could win a trip for 2 to the 2010 MLB® World Series® ! Visit the site, choose the National Black MBA Association as your charity, play the Go To Bat game online and swing for the fences. The more home runs you hit, the more entries you’ll get in the weekly drawing.

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The NBMBAA Annual Conference and Exposition takes place Sept. 21-25 in Los Angeles. With a slate of amazing speakers, including Roland Martin, Daniel Pink, Steve Stoute, Dr. Warren Bennis and many more, Conference is a can't miss event. Register today for access to the best in professional development and networking, and for access to the nation's top diversity career fair, featuring more than 300 copies hiring top level professional talent.

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The app, created in partnership with f2f 6Sixty Digital, is a quality reproduction of the magazine, down to the color-coded navigation, designed to exploit the power of the iPad and enhance the BE reader’s experience.

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Google is integrating Google Voice into the Gmail interface, adding yet another feature that turns the e-mail interface into a broader communications platform and, at the same time, goes after the Skype market for Web-based phone calls.

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Imagine trying to live up to the kind of entrepreneurial legacy Jere Thompson Jr. – whose grandfather Joe Thompson started the iconic 7-Eleven chain in 1927 &ndsah; faces every day when he heads to work.

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In an edited excerpt from his new memoir, leadership guru (and NBMBAA Annual Conference speaker) Warren Bennis writes with poignancy and honesty about what he calls "The Crucible of Age."

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What's the one word of advice a well-meaning professional would give to a recent college graduate today? China? India? Hedge fund (that's two words)? Plastic surgery? How about trade?

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Economists used to believe that an improvement in the housing market helps lead the way out of recession. But two sets of dismal numbers for the sector this week have twisted conventional wisdom.

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The amount consumers owed on their credit cards in this year's second quarter dropped to the lowest level in more than eight years as cardholders continued to pay off balances in the uncertain economy.

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A major league pitcher dreams of throwing a perfect game. High schoolers eyeing the Ivy League study furiously in hopes of earning 2400 on the SAT. Meanwhile, Chris Peplinski is pursuing his own brand of flawlessness: an 850 credit score.

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Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.

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Kendrick Meek's 26-point trouncing of billionaire Jeff Greene in the Florida Democratic Senate primary Tuesday gives his campaign a much-needed boost.

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David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business analysed the transcripts of nearly 30,000 conference calls by American chief executives and chief financial officers between 2003 and 2007.

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If you think it's tough being a manager these days, try being an employee. Most are in the position of having to go with the flow because of the current economic conditions. But that doesn't necessarily mean they do so with a smile on their face.

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Consume more water and you will become much healthier, goes an old wives’ tale. Drink a glass of water before meals and you will eat less, goes another. Such prescriptions seem sensible, but they have little rigorous science to back them up.

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People who buy e-readers tend to spend more time than ever with their nose in a book, preliminary research shows.

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