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Amid all the economic doom and gloom, maybe we should be looking to financial films for some advice on dealing with white-collar crime and unethical business practices. mental_floss does just that in their listicle of 5 Movies About Underhanded Financial Shenanigans. Our favorite is undoubtedly the Dan Akroyd-Eddie Murphy class reversal comedy Trading Places:

Many tax mistakes aren’t serious and can easily be avoided. It’s easy to spot most of the common trip-ups once you know what they are, so there’s no reason to lose sleep over making a mess of your returns. Here are 10 common mistakes to prevent this tax season.
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We here at Listicles are very much in denial of recessionomics. We don’t buy the idea that we won’t be able to buy another yacht every year, or get each of our kids a slick hybrid car for their middle school, high school and college graduations, or that there’s something fundamentally unsustainable about blowing $1,830 [...]

The Detroit Auto Show opened yesterday, offering a hint of what America’s auto industry might resemble in its very uncertain future. As The New York Times notes, Detroit’s Big 3 are finally facing the music and pushing a predominantly hybrid fleet this year. To our surprise, the Times piece questions whether consumers will be easily [...]

As much as we enjoy watching old fast food commercials, we find that the most exciting advertising innovations these days are in print and digital ads. We’re especially impressed by whiz-bang Photoshop effects because of the inumerable days we’ve spent trying to tweak our Facebook profile pictures. With those long, largely ineffectual hours in mind, [...]

As we enter a frugal era of more sober spending in 2009, we can look back on 2008 as the year that decadence died. So in the year’s final installment of our weekly financial listicle, Big Money Mondays, we look at a list from the wise financiers at the New York Daily News of the [...]

A recent Consumerist listicle on smart money habits for the recession advised us to buy used. That suggestion, coupled with the plummeting real estate market, made us think that perhaps we’d be better off investing in homes that aren’t tied down to any local market. So, in that spirit and just in time for the [...]

The Monday morning come-down from the weekend’s escapism doesn’t have to be entirely depressing. Occasionally, financial news can still be profitable and even funny. Here’s proof that stocks are still a bag of laughs:

For financial optimism we turn to Forbes, and John Reese’s list: 5 Hot Stocks for the Long Run. Reese manages to incorporate [...]