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| The Best-Performing U.S. IPOs The average initial public offering on a U.S. exchange lost 12% in 2011. These 10 did far better. How Stay-at-Home Moms Can Thumb Their Noses at the CARD Act Andrea Frayser had the worst time getting a credit card. Why? She's a stay-at-home mom. “It wasn't until a bank representative told me to have my household budget direct deposited into an account with only my name on it to show regular income, and to list my position as “consultant”, that I was able to get several credit cards that way and establish a good credit rating of my own,” says Frayser. Gold Rush . . . to the Sooner State? For all of California’s effort to close their funding gap, it seems California’s budget deficit is now $16 billion. For those doing the math, that’s $7 billion more than the most recent $9 billion projection. Contributing to the wider gap were tax receipts coming in about $4 billion below projections. |