Continental cuts jobs and airfares quadruple, plus other money news on June 5, 2008

Nuggets of news you need today:

Your money elsewhere on the web:

• Continental Airlines to Cut 3,000 Jobs

• Consumers Hit Malls, Boost Retails Sales After All

• Summer Airfares Double, Triple, Quadruple
• Wal-Mart May Sales Going Up
• Seaside City Suffers Nation's Priciest Gas

• Charles Dickens Desk Sells for $850,000

• McCain versus Obama on the Economy

• Iditarod Raises Race Entry Fee by More than Double

• Next Food Shortage: Ice Cream?

• More Than Even, Warren Buffett is the Face of Financial Success

• Some Small Towns Opt to Buy Terrorism Insurance
• Be Cautious When Funding FSA's -- How Safe is your Insurance Company?
• The Trick to Getting a Bad Mortgage Fixed
• Save the Planet, Save Some Money with a Green Lifestyle
• Six Fixes for Pricey Gasoline
• 16 Sweet Used Car Fuel Sippers

• Wal-Mart, Your Friendly Drugstore

• All Business, Always Trouble: What's at the heart of the all-business-class airlines failures? Real estate
• Housing Downturn is a Boon for Some Renters
• How the Rich Spend During a Down Economy
• The 50 Highest-Earning Athletes in the U.S.

Blog Roll:

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