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April is National Financial Literacy Month in the United States. As the country faces a deep recession, Americans are paying closer attention to personal finance. Some critics partly blame the crisis on Americans’ low savings rate and high

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President Obama's chief of the White House National Economic Council, Larry Summers, told a Washington audience Thursday that he foresees an end within the next few months of the economy's "free fall" that he said began last