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Thanks to credit crunches and slow sales, experts say the key to budgeting for 2012 is being prepared for the worst. Here are the simple steps to building a bulletproof budget.

Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t. The founder and CEO paced across the stage before a massive screen displaying the company’s achievements in recent years--skyrocketing sales of media and a heritage of innovative, beloved gadgets. Then he brandished the new wonder, showing its surprising features and teasing with questions along the lines of "what should we charge for it?" before naming an equally surprising low price.

Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.

Ray Martin, from CBS MoneyWatch, talks to Erica Hill and Chris Wragge about how to manage health care costs and how to choose the best plans for you and your family.

A man exercises his right of free speech and gets fired. An IT contractor is claiming the state of New York fired and blacklisted him after he talked to the press when it withheld four months of his paychecks during the 2010 budget crisis. In a lawsuit filed last week in district court, Stephen Anderson of Glenville, New York, is claiming the state violated his constitutional right to free speech and then retaliated against him

Go big or go home? Forget that. These strategies for increasing your brand influence take hardly any time, and very little money.

Captain Greg Davis is an outstanding fishing guide.

The founder of the Slow Money movement makes the case for the kinds of return on investment you get when you put money into your local community. Is there such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, investments that are too abstract and securities that are too complex

A New York nonprofit offers money, mentorship, and community to young, underprivileged, urban entrepreneurs. A couple years ago three serial entrepreneurs got together to create a different kind of entrepreneurial venture: a nationwide community that would foster small-business ownership among minorities, and those from low-income areas of America's biggest cities. The result: 100 Urban Entrepreneurs , a nonprofit foundation headquartered in New York that hosts city events where entrepreneurs can pitch start-up business ideas to judges, meet mentors, apply for funding—the best ones get a $10,000 grant—or just sit in the audience and learn from other aspiring entrepreneurs

Lighter Capital, Rebirth Financial, Weemba, and Kabbage are four start-ups on a mission to connect you with cash. Need cash

Kate Kelly launched Minnesota Bank & Trust amidst the 2008 market crisis. She says shes ready to take it through another. “Here we go again,” Kate Kelly, chief of three-year-old Minnesota Bank & Trust, thought as she saw the market plummeting in early August.

What can your business learn from the innovative ways nonprofits operate today? We've tapped the best ideas and business strategies from seven nonprofits. What good could possibly come from one person giving one dollar at time

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Some half of small businesses never reopen after a data Armageddon.

Nearly 40 years after Mel Brooks breathed new life into Frankenstein, his son, Max, author of "World War Z," is unearthing that other undead goldmine: zombies. You'd think the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft would have settled into a nice comfortable comedy writing gig. But since his days writing for Saturday Night Live, Max Brooks has instead forged a career in an unlikely niche: zombie expert