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A new smaller, wi-fi-enabled reader skips color and touch in favor of price and simplicity.

Jeff Bezos has no intention to try and out-iPad the iPad. Instead, Amazon has told its story about why the Kindle is a better e-book device than Apple's  ( AAPL -  news  -  people ) tablet, and it's sticking to it.

On Wednesday night Amazon announced the next generation Kindle, a slim white or carbon-colored e-reader that's inches smaller in width and height than the Kindle 2. The new model is 15% lighter, accesses wi-fi and features double the storage space.

Amazon's Anti-iPad: A Sub-$150 Kindle

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A company called Terrafugia is expected to start selling ''The Transition'' late next year. Price: $194,000.

The Jetsons predicted that we'd have flying cars by at least 2062, and Back to the Future promised them to us by 2015. It turns out that reality may, for once, outpace fiction.

A small, privately held company called Terrafugia has recently gained FAA approval for its roadable aircraft (i.e., flying car), and new improvements to the vehicle's design bring it only about a year away from being available to customers, according to MSNBC.

A Flying Car To Debut In 2011

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From Apple to Goldman Sachs, resilient brands can bounce back to be among the world's best.

It will take more than a problem with antenna reception on the iPhone 4 to affect Apple's brand.

This is a company that has faced setbacks before and bounced back to become the world's most valuable brand--worth $57.4 billion, according to Forbes. In a list dominated by tech brands--they made up 30% of the top 50 ranked by Forbes--Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) squeaked by longtime nemesis Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ), worth $56.6 billion, and Google ( GOOG - news - people ), which came in fifth on the list with a brand value of $39.7 billion. Steve Jobs' creation is among a number of resilient brands, including corporate ones, that have thrived despite business troubles or setbacks.

The World's Most Valuable Brands

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Macroeconomics from an MBA's perspective. I have given up on macroeconomics.

Certainly it is a worthy field of study. But the science is too young, the systems it studies are too complex, and its practitioners are too often politicized for me to take its prescripts seriously in most policy debates.

Why Keynes Was Wrong

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America's richest get poorer for the fifth time in 27 years.

America's super rich are getting poorer. For only the fifth time since 1982, the collective net worth of The Forbes 400, our annual tally of the nation's richest people, has declined, falling $300 billion in the past 12 months from $1.57 trillion to $1.27 trillion.

Faltering capital markets and real estate prices, along with divorce and fraud, pushed the fortunes of 314 members down and drove 32 plutocrats off the rankings.

The Richest People In America

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What you need to know about Carlos Slim Helu's record-breaking purchase.

If you stand on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and look across the street, you'll have a small chance of glimpsing the world's richest person.

On Thursday Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, who is worth $53.5 billion, bought the Duke-Semans mansion, a beaux-arts townhouse directly across from the Met, for $44 million, public records show. That record-breaking price is the most paid for any New York home in nearly two years.

The World's Richest Man's New Mansion

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Think City's CEO says much of what you think you know about electric vehicles is wrong.

I recently went to Finland to drive the all-electric Think City plug-in car, which is already on European roads and coming to the U.S. later this year. To help it have a soft landing, Think Chief Executive Richard Canny, who spent 25 years at Ford, put together these nine myths about electric vehicles (EVs). I've had my own version, but Richard's list is quite different and well worth sharing. He's not an objective party, of course, but he has hands-on experience.

Nine More Myths About Electric Cars

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You can still make an elite salary with a basic education.

Looking for a six-figure job without a four-year degree? These six lines of work boast potentially hefty paychecks without a traditional diploma. The data below is provided by payscale.com and represents the benchmark cash earnings for high-earners (75th percentile), as well as the 90th percentile within the field for the year 2008.

Six-Figure Jobs You Don't Have To Go To College For

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Debt-addicted Washington sees bailout in higher prices. Given the dire deflation warnings that have become the standard talking points of most economists, American investors can be forgiven for reaching for their Prozac. I believe their anxiety is misplaced. Unfortunately modern economists don't understand what deflation is or why, in reality, we have much more to fear from inflation.

Why Deflation Fears Are Overblown

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Does the offer of making a mint in your pajamas sound too good to be true? It surely is.

In July 2008 Teresa Yeast, of Platea, Pa., heard about Darling Angel Pin Creations through her sister who saw an ad in a local Ohio newspaper. Darling Angel offered to pay people to craft angel pins from home. Yeast's husband had just been laid off after 17 years at the same company, and the couple had two disabled children to feed. The chance to make extra money working at home seemed like a gift.

Twelve Nasty Work-From-Home Scams