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Want to read more about the banker President Obama mentioned tonight who gave $60 million to his employees past and present? [The Miami Herald]

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12 Descendants Of Lumber Baron Split $100 Million Inheritance 92 Years After...

You may not be able to take your money with you after you die, but with the right legal obstacles in place you can prevent anyone else from touching it for nearly a century. That was proven by a lumber...

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Antique Piggy Bank From eBay Stuffed With $133 In Cash

Shawn bought this antique piggy bank on eBay for $13.50. Adorable, isn’t it? What was even more adorable was what he found when he pulled out the original cork: $133 in cash. That’ll do, pig. That’ll...

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Bank Of America Cuts Me A 1¢ Check I Don’t Want Or Need

Bank of America…scrupulously honest? Hmm. Reader Dave closed his money market account that dated back to the Countrywide era, transferring all of the funds to a local bank. (Yay!) Well, he thought he...

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Cash-Strapped USPS Gets Lucky With New Amazon Sunday Delivery

The United States Postal Service has been struggling to make money for some time now, but ho! What is that yonder, in the distance? Could it be a knight in shining armor, riding in to save this damsel...

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Buy Old Records At An Estate Sale For $0.50 Each, Get Marvin Gaye’s Lost...

Everyone loves an unexpected windfall, and no one more so, perhaps, than a collector of Motown paraphernalia. After buying some records at the estate sale of a musician who’d recently passed away, a...

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$40 Desk Bought At Auction Comes With $127K In Matured Bonds

Every now and again, we come across those magical stories of hidden treasures popping up in the cheapest, most unexpected places, and it’s enough to send a dreamer running to the nearest garage sale,...

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Vintage Apple Computer Worth $200K Dropped Off For Recycling

Back in April, a woman in her sixties dropped off a box of what she said was her late husband’s computer junk at an electronics recycling company in California’s Bay Area. She didn’t want a donation...

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Winner Of The Jet Signup Contest Spent $18K On Ads, Prize Now Worth Millions

Back at the beginning of 2015, before it launched to the public, e-commerce site Jet used a contest to encourage people to refer others to the site. The winner was a Pennsylvania man who spent $18,000...

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Piece Of ‘Costume Jewelry’ From Flea Market Was Really Diamond Now Worth $454K

Have you ever wondered whether there’s something very valuable sitting around your house, and you don’t even know it? A woman in England bought what she thought was a costume jewelry ring 30 years ago,...

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