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Three years ago, when Mark Goff and Phillip Engel had their first viewing of Château Avensac in the south of France, only one thing prevented the California couple from putting in an offer: Was it old enough?
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Builders have too many new homes on their hands.
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No one's going to sound an alarm, blast out a text message, or shoot you an email about it, but the US economy is undergoing a historic shift. We are leaving one long period of expansion — what economists refer to as a "supercycle" — and entering a very different one.
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Doug Mattison just wanted to cancel his gym membership.
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The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post.
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When Josef Woodman's shoulder gave out in 2012 — strained from chopping firewood on his farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina — he said he was quoted between $2,400 and $3,200 for an MRI at Duke University Hospital.
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Lana Linge has $42,000 in credit-card debt, but it's not the giant tab that has her most frustrated.