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Legislation to repeal last year’s on-line gambling ban was introduced by Rep. Barney Frank (D. MA) , the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. The proposed legislation, Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act, proposes to legalize on-line gambling, while enforcing strict regulations and policing.
History: There was an attempt to prohibit Internet gambling in 1999, [...]

Walter Updegrave, Money Magazine senior editor, and author of the “Ask the Expert” column on CNN Money, received a question from a young reader about the best way to save for a planned trip around the world in 2009, even if it means having to forgo retirement savings.
What was Walter’s response? Great idea! Skip saving [...]

Sometimes a small mistake can pay off big time. A North Carolina store clerk accidentally rang up the same Powerball lottery ticket two times. But the person who bought the original ticket only wanted one of them. Why would anyone want to buy two tickets with the same number? It was simple $1 mistake. At [...]

CNN Money has an article today about selling through smelling - using scents in advertizing.
Real estate agents have long recommended baking cookies or bread when showing your home to prospective buyers because these smells make people feel like they are already at home. But now marketers are taking things one step further.
CNN reports that ad companies [...]

I was pretty sick this weekend, so I thought some humor might do some good…
Retirement Planning -
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
With Lucent, you [...]

Yes, sometimes you should play the lottery. Why?
Well, if anyone out there has watched poker on TV, or ever played with anyone who is fairly serious, you will be familiar with the term “pot odds.”
Basically, pot odds states that the amount of money in the pot is sufficient enough to justify calling the [...]