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Check out 'Europe's Best' frozen veggies and fruit labels. The vegetables come from Belgium all right, but the fruit packages are from Chile and Paraguay! Read the labels.

Recently, I was in a local grocery store, looking at the tomatoes and wondering which to buy for my salad. There were some lovely looking hothouse tomatoes on the vine, red and juicy looking. More>>

In 2002, when plasma TVs were selling for $10,000, the Taiwanese-born entrepreneur set out to sell one for $2,999. He fulfilled his ambition a year later, shipping a 46-inch model with a $2,799 price tag, about half what other brands then charged.

Now his Irvine, Calif.-based company, Vizio Inc., is the No. 1 maker of flat-panel TVs in North America, outselling entrenched Asian competitors in the second quarter. The private company says that it is profitable, that it recorded nearly $700 million in revenue in 2006, and that it is on track for $2 billion in sales this year.

"They supplanted all the heavy hitters, including Sony and Samsung," said Edward Taylor, an analyst with the DisplaySearch research company. More>>

"I think some people are afraid of even opening up their bills," said personal finance expert Jennifer Openshaw. "But they have to stare Scrooge in the eye and tackle the problem head on. The more people do that, the more confident they'll feel -- and the more they can do about it."

Consumers have a lot of card debt to deal with. Even before the 2007 holiday spending season began, Americans added more than $50 billion to their credit cards in the first 10 months of the year to reach a record total of $928.5 billion in October, according to the Federal Reserve. More>>