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...Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for writer-director-producer Paul Haggis. Yet the film's domestic box-office total ($56 million) was higher than that of any of its laureled rivals when the nominations came out last Tuesday...
...while China may not be the cheapest place to build cars, it's growing more attractive. Tariffs on parts have declined lately, and logistics costs should decrease as China's transport infrastructure improves. Last year Honda became the first foreign automaker to set up a major export operation, shipping a compact to Europe from a plant in Guangdong's special, duty-free zone. Chrysler plans to build its 300-model sedan in Beijing for domestic sale and possible export (although not to North America, where autoworkers would probably object). GM and Volkswagen export small quantities too, such as Chevy Venture...
...Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services complaining of "inaccurate and misleading" pricing information. When one of her constituents, Caren Reed, signed onto medicare.gov to help her 85-year-old mother-in-law find a plan covering her eight prescription drugs, the website listed Fox Insurance Co.'s as the cheapest, at $2,850 annually for her copays, premiums and coverage gaps. But when Reed phoned the Scottsdale, Arizona company, she says a representative told her the yearly cost would actually be $4,232. "How can anyone make an intelligent decision when you have misinformation?" asks Reed, a retired attorney...
...government-paid staff trip after I showed him how the information I collected would bolster legislation he was proposing to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the Pentagon budget. But he did so only after checking the airline schedules himself to make sure I was booking the cheapest ticket...
...MASS. AVE. $1 Cambridge Savings Bank showcases the cheapest ATMs in the Square. You can give your fresh twenties to the Spare Change guy right outside the doors...