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Traders enjoy a light moment on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday.

Dollars and Sense: January was sunny, but ominous clouds loom on the horizon

Money |  January ends. The first month of the year is behind us, and from the stock market’s perspective it was a good month. The Dow was up 5.8 percent for the…

Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday.

Dollars and Sense: Stocks, housing, and manufacturing stronger, but Europe still jittery

Money |  Editor's Note: Introducing a new roundup of the week's financial news, which will be posted each Friday. Stocks strong. We’re now well into earnings season on…

RISING CONSTRUCTION COSTS: The Washington Monument framed in a construction crane at the future site of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Boom town

Money |  Deficit spending prospers the Washington, D.C., metro area as the rest of the nation struggles

Sen. Pat Toomey
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March madness

Money |  Debt ceiling fight is next showdown in Congress that lurches from crisis to crisis

Mary Miller
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Cared to death

Money |  The costs of Obamacare add up as employers lay off workers and cut back hours

WALL STREET ENDURES: View of New York Stock Exchange after the storm
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Storm before the calm

Money |  Sandy was destructive, but the financial markets have not panicked

A real cliff-hanger
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A real cliff-hanger

Money |  Automatic budget cuts and tax hikes would take the wind out of an economy that's starting to look better

Data defects
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Data defects

Money |  Nobody cooks the unemployment rate books, but the government’s surveys do need reform

Cash advance
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Cash advance

Money |  QE3 gave at least a short-term boost to stocks but will it prompt companies to spend?

NFL officials

Greater greed?

Sports |  Sports fans love sports for the games themselves. We love the excitement, the athleticism, the pageantry and drama, and the individual teams and athletes. We…

A Saudi money exchanger counts Saudi riyals in Riyadh
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Stealth jihadists

Money |  Critics say Sharia compliant financing is funding terrorism and infiltrating capital markets

Untimely disclosure
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Untimely disclosure

Money |  Will Bain Capital's links to Stericycle hurt Mitt Romney with pro-life voters?

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