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5 NFL Commercials You'll Hate The NFL season is only a week old, but the commercials are already starting to grate on fans. It's early to start complaining, but that's exactly what fans thought at the beginning of the recession in 2008. Toyota TM had just begun to promote 0% APR financing for its automobiles, and what better way to do that than with an ''80s song that apes a Buddhist mantra: The Fixx's 'Saved by Zero.'"

30 Statistics Showing Elite Are Getting Richer Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the past few years. In fact, some Americans are doing really, really well. A recent article on CNBC noted that companies marketing luxury goods and services are generally performing well and those catering to average Americans are doing rather poorly -- owing to the large number of Americans who either can't spend a lot of money right now or are hesitant to.

U.S. Retirement System Weak in Rankings In recent days, the streets of France have been clogged with protests -- some violent -- in part because of a proposal to raise the national retirement age. The furor over a proposal to raise the pension threshold to age 62 from 60 by 2018 is not likely to garner much sympathy from the many Americans struggling with a self-directed 401(k) and the ability of Social Security to meet their needs.

The Myth of Small-Business Job Creation We often hear talk of how small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and the predominant driver of employment. That's more rhetoric than reality, according to a trio of researchers at a Cambridge, Mass., think tank.