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House Hunting for Two: How to Find Your Happy Home

Filed under: Buying, How To, Lifestyle Shutterstock By Vanessa Nix Anthony While it can be tough enough to find just the right spot to rest your head at night on your own, it can be even more difficult when searching with a partner. Choosing where you’ll live, whether you’re renting or buying a home, is one of the most important and personal decisions you’ll ever make. It’s the definition of

Friday, May 15: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The gold price traded almost ruler flat through most of Far East trading on their Thursday, but began to show signs of life about 1:45 p.m. Hong Kong time.  That ‘rally’ lasted until ten minutes after the COMEX open—and then gold rallied sharply before getting cut off at the knees around 10:30 a.m. in New York.  It crawled higher from there, but got sold down once

Conservative push for solar is backed by usual green advocates

By Nichola Groom and Richard Valdmanis LOS ANGELES/BOSTON (Reuters) – When Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party firebrand from Woodstock Georgia, makes the case for solar power, she doesn’t rely on the usual environmental talking points. Former Republican Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr. casts his support for solar energy as a conservative stance against monopoly power utilities that “want to limit energy choice.”  Dooley and Goldwater, along with the right-leaning pro-solar groups

US oil production 'important' amid clean energy transition: Obama

President Barack Obama called US oil production an “important” source of energy as America transitions towards cleaner resources, defending his move to allow petroleum giant Shell to drill in the Alaskan Arctic. Obama’s administration gave the petroleum giant a green light three days ago to explore the Chukchi Sea near Alaska — as long as the Anglo-Dutch firm has the correct permits from the agencies that regulate the environment and