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Cash4Gold has decided to stop suing Consumerist.com for posting a confession from an ex-employee and whistleblower. They might be meltin' gold, baby, but not the truth.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/b2zzbfEwA-I" height="1" width="1"/>

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In the latest sign that China takes the threat of global warming seriously, Chinese business executives with close ties to the government have launched a voluntary market in Beijing to buy and sell carbon credits.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/dLBW-SJ8ojM" height="1" width="1"/>

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Come January, seniors may do a double take after seeing their Social Security checks. The 2- to 3-percentage-point increase in benefits they've been getting each year won't be there.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/KJ9sNRDBL90" height="1" width="1"/>

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When the economy stumbles, panic can drive matters from bad to worse. Economist Ricardo Caballero has a new plan to keep investment markets free of fear.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/daEIKnUz5iE" height="1" width="1"/>

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The car industry crisis deepens with the announcement of the latest job cuts taking place in Europe.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/uCAmws2asYM" height="1" width="1"/>

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The first generation of dot-coms burned through cash rapidly because they had to spend a lot of money building and running their businesses. Thanks to Web 2.0, many of these costs have plummeted. A business built on the infrastructure laid down by the first two generations of Web companies ca<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/E_yDWKQneMI" height="1" width="1"/>

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Even in retirement, you still have income (and assets) subject to taxes. Different states have different tax policies that significantly affect retirees. The following map provides an easy way to identify states that offer the best home for you and your money when you decide to retire.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/t_Mw5_Y_Wfg" height="1" width="1"/>

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This is the first time the combined value of the world's top 100 brands as ranked by Interbrand, a branding agency, has fallen in the 10 years Interbrand has assessed them.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/dhsgPaeUZLY" height="1" width="1"/>

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Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has developed a new way to resell tickets that shuts out the brokers and scalpers it has long scorned, and instead keeps the profits for itself, musicians and venue owners. ... Bruce Springsteen, Trent Reznor and Joe Pa approve.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/B20eD4bI5-I" height="1" width="1"/>

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Here are 14 examples of big purchases and their ideal buying times to get you started saving cash.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/OWcx-H3xd1Q" height="1" width="1"/>

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Restaurants and retailers in the U.S. pay a steep fee each time they swipe your credit card. Armed with new data showing such fees to be unusually high, retailers are preparing to fight back.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/CX90hGozcWQ" height="1" width="1"/>

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I’ll spare you the environmental lecture—Just imagine your life with out a car payment. Sounds pretty nice, right? Read on to see how you can make it a reality. Even better: you don’t have to wear spandex biking shorts.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/FJayU_g07wo" height="1" width="1"/>

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Following a torrent of customer complaints and bad publicity, T-Mobile has abandoned a plan to charge any customer wanting a paper bill $1.50 per month. While the news is being cheered by many T-Mobile customers, it's not going to be as popular with others who praised the extra fee as an environmentally sound inducement to reduce paper use.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/YmZa6bigQS4" height="1" width="1"/>

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The American History Guys show how economic history repeats itself.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/RDgjhDqV8_4" height="1" width="1"/>

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The number of unemployed climbed by 210,000 to 2.47 million people in the three months to July -- the highest level since May 1995 -- despite tentative signs of economic recovery.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/3ymhRPas0do" height="1" width="1"/>

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We all know that Americans have cut back on their spending during the recession but where are they cutting back the most? Comparing 20 cities across 25 “discretionary” categories we found that five cities spend less than the national average and cut more of their spending (yr over yr) than the national average.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/lNBN_AjSKTQ" height="1" width="1"/>

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Soundbites of folly, fury and warning in the financial crisis<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/icCjNNzWsmM" height="1" width="1"/>

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The theory that destroyed the banks.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/VV8asK7uStQ" height="1" width="1"/>

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It’s a great opportunity that could bring Mint.com’s unique approach to personal financial management to millions more consumers and small businesses as well as the 1,800 banks and credit unions serviced by Intuit.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/7EuJ_xhLSh8" height="1" width="1"/>

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"I have this vivid memory of that Sunday,” Laurie Barnett, tells me over the disco music pumping into the midtown Manhattan restaurant where we meet, “when everyone figured out that Lehman was going bankrupt and Merrill was merging with Bank of America, and everything basically went to *****.”<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/business_finance/popular/~4/CRWdnLUTBIE" height="1" width="1"/>

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