Month: July 2009

The unemployment rate hits a 26 year high. Bernie Madoff gets hit with a 150 year sentence. And Wal-mart takes some hits for its support of employer mandated health coverage. So what does it all mean for investors? In this installment of Motley Fool Money, we tackle those stories, debate the relative merits of Home Depot and Lowe’s, and get under the hood of high-tech car safety company AutoLiv.

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