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Quarter rose at its fastest pace in 3 and a half years. And in another split, new home starts fell in december but, were up for all of 2013. All of this resulted in, well, a split close in the markets. The dow closed up on friday while the nasdaq and s p 500 finished lower. Gold took a 13 dollar an ounce leap and oil futures closed friday at a 2 week high, just over 94 dollars. Traders are still digesting the impact of the president s announcement that he will limit the vast sucking up of data o...

The Deadly Trail that Finally Revealed a Phantom Branch of My Family Tree My earliest American-born ancestor was my great-great-grandfather, Edward Murphy. It took a while to figure this out as the skimpy traces he left claimed both New York and Ireland as his birthplace, but then I stumbled across his baptism. To my delight,