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Forbes Names the Most Educated Small Towns in the US

SavvySugar — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:30:21 -0800

Real estate prices are declining in most places, but I would bet the towns that are home to universities are seeing prices drop less than towns that don't have an educational economy. Higher education jobs have been hanging on through the recession, and real estate in the towns where these schools are located is directly correlated to their existence.

Forbes determined the 20 most educated towns in the US, and noted that because college graduates and people with graduate degrees make substantially more per year than those with high school diplomas alone, highly educated residents serve to increase the median incomes in the towns in which they reside. The towns on Forbes' list have the greatest concentration of residents with college degrees or higher. To see the ten best-educated towns,

Forbes Ranks Hollywood's Top-Earning Power Couples

SavvySugar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:30:00 -0800

If success is a turn-on, then the hot power couples in Hollywood must be lusting after each other to no end. These may be two-income households, but both halves can hold their own in millions. The jury is out on who tends to pick up the check, but Forbes has declared which pairs fit the bill as the top-earning couples in Hollywood. Here are the top 10 from the magazine's list of Hollywood's 20 Top-Earning Couples along with how much they earned this year.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart: $22 million
Tony Parker and Eva Longoria: $22.5 million
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman: $25 million
Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani: $28 million
Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann: $30 million
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: $34 million
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill: $35 million
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham: $58 million
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith: $85 million
Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles: $162 million

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How Costs Vary Across the US

SavvySugar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:30:50 -0800

We can use cost of living calculators to determine approximately how far our salaries will take us in another city, but it's more difficult to put a number on the nickels and dimes of daily living expenses. Forbes surveyed cities across the US and used its findings to name which cities pay the most and least for certain costs. Unsurprisingly, New York, NY appears as the priciest city for several expenses. Do any of these numbers surprise you?

Expense	Cheapest	Priciest
Monthly Rent (2 bdrm)	Charlotte, NC: $666	New York, NY: $3,500
Monthly Home Mortgage	Dallas, TX: $967	New York, NY: $5,831
Monthly Energy Bills	Seattle, WA: $119	New York, NY: $362.28
Monthly Landline Bill	Los Angeles, CA: $19	Boston, MA: $38.45

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Forbes Names Best and Worst Bang-For-the-Buck Cities

SavvySugar — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:00:16 -0700

The current economy has most of us in search of a magical land unaffected by high gas prices and the credit crisis. Sadly, there is no magical land, but there are places were you can stretch your dollar a little further than others. Forbes has put together a Best and Worst Bang For the Buck list that takes into account the rank of job-growth projections, inflation, median house price, and median household income, median income and cost of living index, and gas prices.

The Best Value Cities are:

Portland, OR
Denver, CO
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Dallas, TX
Columbus, OH
Charlotte, NC
Houston, TX
Indianapolis, IN
San Antonio, TX
Austin, TX

For the list of America's Worst-Value Cities,

Interview Questions From Self-Made Billionaires, Part II

SavvySugar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:00:45 -0700

I've already shared the go-to questions used by self-made billionaires when a job candidate first walks into their offices, and here's a list of the final questions they use when wrapping up interviews. Leaving on a strong note is always important — finish with a punch and prepare for your interviews by considering answers to some of these questions.

John Catsimiditis — What do you hate to do?
Leon Charney — How did you feel when you walked out?
John Paul DeJoria — Is there anything else you would like to ask me?
Tom Golisano — When are you available?
Michael Heisley — Are there any questions that you have?
R.J. Kirk: Highly variable.
Ted Lerner: Questions to elicit and evaluate integrity and character.
Rob Maguire — Do you have the passion necessary to succeed here or are you just looking for a job?

See eight more billionaires' interview questions when you

Interview Questions From Self-Made Billionaires, Part I

SavvySugar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:00:38 -0700

It's obvious Forbes had a good time playing 20 questions with 17 self-made members of the Forbes 400 — you know, the list of the 400 richest Americans. One question all of the billionaires were asked was "What are the first and last questions you ask in any job interview?" The answers range from practical to paranoid, and I've shared part one of the 16 answers with you here (Ron Perelman had no answer for this question). Listed below are the questions they typically ask at the beginning of an interview: Which of these questions would you have the most fun answering, and which would be most challenging for you?

John Catsimiditis — What do you like to do?
Leon Charney — How did you feel when you walked in?
John Paul DeJoria — Welcome, would you please sit down?
Tom Golisano — What can you do for the company?
Michael Heisley — Why are you seeking this position?
R.J. Kirk — Why are you here?
Ted Lerner — Questions to elicit and evaluate integrity and character.
Rob Maguire — Why are you here?

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Do You Live in a Stressful City?

DearSugar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:00:00 -0700

Forbes is at it again, but this time they are looking at the 10 most stressful cities in America. They constructed their list after looking at the country's 40 largest metropolitan areas and examining quality of life indicators. They looked at the housing market, cost of living, price of gas, environmental factors such as weather and air quality, and lastly, population density.

According to Forbes:

Residents of the cities on our list acutely experience the shifts wrought by global and local economies in turmoil. In fact, it's "bedrock security issues" like housing affordability, job security and cost of living [that] drive anxiety, says Edward Hallowell, M.D., a former professor at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, Mass.

Check out the first five cities on their list below:

Philadelphia, PA
Providence, RI
Salt Lake City, UT
Cleveland, OH
San Diego, CA

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How Money Are You: Who's Who of the Forbes 400

SavvySugar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:15 -0700

The Forbes 400 can cause mixed feelings: On the one hand, it makes generating massive wealth seem out of reach because the person sitting at number 400 on the list is worth $1.3 billion. On the other hand, the various businesses that have made these people rich make it clear that success can be found in the most unassuming places.

The 400 richest people in the US have varied and interesting business backgrounds — can you guess what made them rich? Take the quiz!

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Do You Live in an Overpriced Zip Code?

SavvySugar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:30:31 -0700

The introduction of the new 90210 got me thinking about posh Beverly Hills, and with the never-gets-old theme song in mind, I went searching for information on real estate by zip code. Turns out I didn't have to look too far, because Forbes created a list of the most overpriced zip codes in the US. Forbes determined if a zip code was overpriced by looking at how much of a premium home owners pay in comparison to how much it costs to rent a similar home in the area.

10013: Tribeca, New York, NY
02111: Chinatown, Boston, MA
98104: Downtown, Seattle, WA
90038: West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
92103: Mission Hills, San Diego, CA
94122: Outer Sunset, San Francisco, CA
85006: Coronado, Phoenix, AZ
75209: Greenway Parks and Devonshire, Dallas, TX
97213: Rose City Park, Portland, OR
95125: Willow Glen, San Jose, CA

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Ranked: 100 Most Powerful Women in the World

SavvySugar — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:18 -0700

The women on Forbes's fifth annual list of the 100 most powerful women in the world control $26 trillion worldwide, and the list is an impressive grouping of government and company leaders. While these individuals are doing quite well for themselves, women hold just 15 percent of top corporate jobs in the US and are chief executives for less than 3 percent of the country's biggest companies. Here are the top 10 most powerful females; visit Forbes for the full list.

Angela Merkel: Chancellor, Germany
Sheila C. Bair: Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), US
Indra K. Nooyi: Chairman and chief executive, PepsiCo, US
Angela Braly: Chief executive and president, WellPoint, US
Cynthia Carroll: Chief executive, Anglo American, UK
Irene B. Rosenfeld: Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods, US
Condoleezza Rice: Secretary of state, US
Ho Ching: Chief executive, Temasek Holdings, Singapore
Anne Lauvergeon: Chief executive, Areva, France
Anne Mulcahy: Chairman, chief executive, Xerox Corp., US

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