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Cut your heating, cooling and lighting costs

Hope remains that the bailout legislation will succeed where earlier measures failed.

Consumer spending has been weak, and a key reason for this lies with conditions in the labor market.

Remodeling expenditures are less cyclical and more stable than spending for new construction.

Stimulus initiatives could take way too long to be felt in the economy, and may stimulate inflation.