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Okay. Your 401(k) hasn't lived up to the hype, but remember that even Warren Buffett lost $25 billion in the Great Recession. You've just survived one of the most harrowing periods in the history of modern finance. If you lost less than a third of your portfolio, you fared reasonably well. Your 401(k) may not be all it was cracked up to be, but with tax-deferred growth and a company match, it's still one of the best tools you have to get your retirement back on track. Handled with care (diverse, conservative investments...
...month right there. Refinance the mortgage while rates are still low. Use any new savings to pay down your highest-rate credit cards first. An alternative approach is to target your smallest debts first in order to experience success and build momentum to pay off larger loans. Once you've paid off a debt, apply the full monthly savings to other debts and long-term savings. (See how Americans are spending...
...Blogger.com put a dozen chocolate-chip-cookie recipes into a spreadsheet and averaged out each ingredient and instruction. On her blog Megnut.com she posted the result: "A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie." I decided to make it and compare it to one of the best chocolate-chip cookies I've ever had: the ones that chef Kerry Simon, of the restaurants Simon in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, includes with a glass of milk on his platter of Rice Krispies treats, cotton candy, sno balls and other childhood favorites. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...amazement, the cookies were pretty good. Hourihan had also assumed they would come out an inedible mess. "Everybody who bakes tells you it's about exact measurements. But there's still room for play," she says. "It was better than a lot of the chocolate-chip recipes I've tried...
Letterman took heat - when Howard Stern is criticizing your treatment of women, you know you've screwed up - and the questions came thick: Would viewers turn to Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno, if CBS didn't have to get rid of him altogether? And could Letterman tell sex jokes about politicians anymore? (See the top 10 political sex scandals...