For the week ending Oct. 5, 2007
Jubak: Inflation is our biggest export
The United States of Toyota
Weston: Sleazy credit card tactics under fire
The highs and lows of IPOs

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New on MSN Money

TELL A MARKETER 'NO': Just when you thought it was safe to pick up the phone again, turns out there's a catch in the national Do Not Call list. After five years, you have to re-register your phone number or the telemarketers can dial you up again. Apparently, the feds thought we might miss those one-ringy-dingys. Liz Pulliam Weston explains how to keep them off your back in "Do Not Call list about to expire."

BANKING ON IT: The market keeps acting like the worst is over, but Citigroup this week said quarterly profit will fall 60% this time around amid the massive mortgage mess. That's the first hit of many, Jim Jubak says in "Big banks about to lower the boom."

BUILDING BUST: Jon Markman, meanwhile, says reports that home-building stocks are near their bottom have been greatly exaggerated. For them, he says, the worst is yet to come.

GREENBACK BLUES: Of course, the Fed has attacked the mortgage mess with rate cuts that many say will surely lower the value of the good old U.S. dollar. Read Charley Blaine's special look at "What the falling dollar means for you."

DEALING THE CARDS: Mortgages may be harder to get these days, but there's still an easy way to get a credit card. Just enroll as a college student. For an inside look at how lenders tempt students into debt, read "Confessions of a credit card pusher."

'TIS ALREADY THE SEASON: Lastly, it's never too early to make a list and start checking it twice. The nation's largest retailer this week announced the first sale of the season, cutting the prices on its top 12 toys of Christmas. Just in time for Halloween. Read "Wal-Mart starts Christmas offensive."

Coming up on MSN Money

HEALTH CARE ON YOUR OWN: On Monday, Liz Pulliam Weston follows up her recent columns on people who successfully retire early with a look at how they manage the cost of health care with no employer to help out. (You can always find her latest work on her MSN Money home page, where you can sign up to get an e-mail whenever she publishes a new column.)

HEDGE EDGE: Also on Monday, Bill Fleckenstein looks into the ways of computer-driven hedge funds and suggests things are getting desperate for them. (You can find all his columns on his index page.)

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