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Stephen Maher: The Crown corporation’s new no-cash rule for buying food hurts the 10 per cent of the population that doesn’t have a credit card

Ways to manage your debt before you’re under for good

Could this be the Harper Conservatives’ real plan for the housing market?

PayPal, the online payment-processing system made popular by eBay, its corporate parent, is betting that its future may not be online, but in the real world. PayPal is planning a push into retail stores with a system that would involve swiping cellphones at registers to make payments, rather than using credit or debit cards. The company, which has 95 million users online, estimates expanding into physical stores could double its revenues to $7 billion within two years.

California, Florida, Arizona, Illinois and Michigan especially hard hit

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Brits are using credit like never before. Whatever happened to frugality?

The real reason Canada’s banking system is so solid

A weekly scorecard on the state of the economy in North America and beyond

As the banks clamp down, the payday lenders are filling the void

STEVE MAICH ON ALL BUSINESS

In today’s Financial Post, Jackie Thorpe provides some much-needed perspective on the current debate in Ottawa over the Conservatives’ fiscal update, and specifically the need for a stimulus package to save the economy.