Wall Street was in an uproar on Tuesday as stocks churned, oil plummeted, and policy makers issued a darker outlook on the economy. Meanwhile, the dollar fell to a new low against the euro, GM said it would slash jobs and suspend its dividend, and a report showed that consumer spending slowed in June more than economists had anticipated. Fuck.

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Borrowers will now be able to consolidate their variable-rate federal student loans at significantly lower fixed interest rates, thanks to the Fed's flurry of rate cuts over the last year. Rate cuts made by the Fed largely in response to the subprime mortgage credit crisis added up to a 3-percent drop for student loan borrowers.

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The economy showed the depth of its twin problems on Tuesday, slow growth and rising inflation, as the nation wrestled with a teetering financial system, a slumping dollar and rising prices for food and fuel. Soaring costs for gasoline and food pushed inflation at the fastest pace in more than a quarter-century.

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Virtual Worlds - Moving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting.The Web of the Future - A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data.

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EBay Inc., the world's largest Internet auctioneer, fell 7.7 percent in late U.S. trading after reporting slowing growth in spending at its retail sites. Gross merchandise volume, the value of all goods that users sold on EBay's sites, rose 8 percent, the smallest increase in at least five quarters, EBay said today in a statement.

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You would expect Americans, in a period of falling home prices, a wobbly stock market and an ongoing war, to be less than satisfied with the direction of the country. It's natural. But Americans are not simply dissatisfied.

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IndyMac bank going under probably has you wondering, is my bank next? Various analysts are predicted that hundreds of small and regional banks could collapse in the next year. Here's the top 10 list of the nation's most troubled banks...

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