Tuesday's Personal Finance Stories
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Don't miss these top stories: Retro toys are making a big comeback this year, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, E.T. and Furby dolls expected to show up under Christmas trees next week. Read why retailers have stocked up on old favorites this year in a story by Quentin Fottrell.Also in today's Personal Finance pages, read about a $480 Japanese-imported steak and learn the top 10 things you'll worry about in 2013. —Amy Hoak , assistant editorRetro toys dusted off for a comeback
More toy shoppers are rummaging through their childhoods for holiday gift ideas.
Retro toys dusted off for a comeback. The $480 steak
Hard-to-find Japanese import is "not even meat" but "something else," says one chef.
The $480 steak. Top 10 things to worry about in 2013
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, along comes 2013. Irwin Kellner looks at the troubles looming in the new year.
Top 10 things to worry about in 2013. Do fund flows foretell a rally?
Investors are piling into equity funds, but experts say that doesn't tell the whole story.
Do fund flows foretell a rally? Fringe 15-year mortgage becomes hot property
More borrowers are choosing home loans that they can pay off much faster.
Fringe 15-year mortgage becomes hot property. Obama 'cliff' bid trims Social Security
In fiscal-cliff talks, the president reportedly backs "chained CPI," but not a change in the Medicare-eligibility age.
Obama 'cliff' bid trims Social Security. Drive these cars (or let them drive you)
The auto industry would love to make driving easier for older motorists — without using the word "older," of course.
Drive these cars (or let them drive you). ECONOMY AND POLITICS
Why isn't Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?
President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner are ignoring the most obvious budget solution: eliminating $2.6 trillion in unnecessary corporate welfare that only benefits special interests, writes Rex Nutting.
Why isn't Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts? Exchanges say dark pools 'degrade' public markets
Top exchange executives raise concerns about the proliferation of dark-pool markets, arguing that continued flow of trades to the opaque trading venues could be a disadvantage to the overall markets.
Exchanges say dark pools 'degrade' public markets. Home-builder confidence highest since 2006
A gauge of confidence among home builders rose in December to the highest level since April 2006, with respondents encouraged by declining inventory and good sales conditions.
Home-builder confidence highest since 2006. Boehner floats 'Plan B' as cliff deadline nears
House Speaker Boehner floats a backup plan to raise taxes on incomes of $1 million and above, even as Republicans and the White House were moving closer to a deal to avert the fiscal cliff.
Boehner floats 'Plan B' as cliff deadline nears. U.S. current-account deficit shrinks again
Third-quarter current account deficit narrows to $107.5 billion, the smallest since the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Commerce Department data.
U.S. current-account deficit shrinks again. Pelosi joins McConnell in going against own ideas
Nancy Pelosi joins Mitch McConnell in campaigning against their own ideas from becoming law.
Pelosi joins McConnell in going against own ideas. INVESTING
Expect more tumult in tech during 2013
The last year was tumultuous for the tech industry, and experts expect more excitement in 2013. For some big names, writes Therese Poletti, their very survival may be at stake.
Expect more tumult in tech during 2013. Wall Street faces Newtown tragedy
Cerberus decision to dump Freedom Group, the company that made the assault rifle used in Newtown, Conn., illustrates the complicated relationship Wall Street has to money, rights and a massacre in its own backyard.
Wall Street faces Newtown tragedy. Better watch out: Insiders are selling
Corporate insiders are no longer on the side of the bulls. As Mark Hulbert explains, this represents a remarkably quick shift from the situation that prevailed just one month ago, when the average insider was behaving quite bullishly.
Better watch out: Insiders are selling. 13 reasons Koch Empire joins environmentalists
Billionaires Charles and David Koch, as world's leading environmentalists? Sounds absurd, right? Actually it's inevitable.
13 reasons Koch Empire joins environmentalists 
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