Celebrate with Carvel Iceberg The three-quarters-of-a-century-old ice cream shop Carvel is throwing itself a birthday party. There’s no free cake, but you can stop by for an Iceberg, a slushy drink topped with vanilla soft-serve ice cream. Icebergs are new to Carvel’s product line, so the shop — which is now old enough to be my grandpa’s fishing ...

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Since I was feeling rather more flush with cash than usual, I decided to make an extra payment on my mortgage this month. It was so easy! I have it set up for electronic payment from my bank anyway, and if I send them an amount that doesn't match the monthly payment exactly to the ...

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I ended up applying for the Citi Forward card mentioned several days ago as part of my list of credit cards with sign-up incentives. There really wasn’t much to the decision, it was basically the only one I didn’t already have. Sign-Up Bonus New cardholders get 6,000 bonus ThankYou points after $50 in purchases ...

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Small businesses are suffering Eric Schmidt CEO of Google In response to the economy, small businesses are looking to the installment loan. Like all businesses in the economy, small businesses are stretching to find customers. Unfortunately with today’s market, customers are hard to come by. Most Americans are feeling the recession one way or another.Whether it’s a job ...

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Debt relief is the order of the day for big business. Bankruptcy filings by retailers, newspapers, casinos, and racetracks have become commonplace. According to the Ottawa Citizen, filings in the first quarter of 2009 were 78 per cent higher than the same period in 2008 and three times higher than in 2007. So take heart! If ...

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