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Some of us are just looking to an extra powder room to our homes. And then, well, there are these aquatic wonders: Homes that boast indoor swimming options that range from luxurious to opulent.

But be prepared!

Scrolling through this compilation of natatorium-enabled manses is enough to stir up a swirling case of freestyle envy. Private lap pools? Single-family splash centers?

And because of the space and climate requirements to house these shimmering…

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Tuesday starts an incredibly busy week in the U.S. with Case-Shiller home prices and a manufacturing report out of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Internationally, markets will have unemployment readings in Japan and Norway, as well as inflation in Germany, to guide shares.

Here's what you need to know.

• Japan starts things off at 7:30 p.m. on Monday evening with monthly unemployment figures. Expectations are for the jobless rate to remain unchanged at 4.5…

Spanish markets got clubbed today, as PM Mariano Rajoy was announcing a new nationalization scheme for Bankia.

But that was mostly expected.

What freaked out investors was a new report in El Mundo that suggested a new, much-more expensive fire needed to be put out.

In its latest Euro Areas: Sovereign Debt Crisis Update note,…

Trip Hawkins, founder of video-game publisher Electronic Arts, has stepped down from his current venture, Digital Chocolate, according to a blog post he wrote on Friday before the Memorial Day weekend.

He alluded to cutbacks at his company: "For its next stage of growth, Digital Chocolate is narrowing its focus…

The rally in US futures, the euro, and Greek stocks today was primarily the result of one thing: Polls showing that the pro-bailout New Democracy party has taken the lead in the Greek elections, which will be on June 17.

For the last two trading days, polls out of Greece have been a major driver of market action.

So it makes sense, then, that you'd want to keep watching Greek polls.

And…

When Sarah and I had our children, we were somewhat lucky in that a lot of our friends and family were having children around the same time. There were several different couples that all had children within two or three years of each other.

Because of that, and because many of our friends and family are frugally minded, many of our family events and gatherings of friends turned into swap meets for children’s clothing and other items.

We’d bring a…

A beautiful 1930's stone home in East Hampton is on sale for $26.5 million.

Robert David Lion Gardiner, a descendant of the prominent Long Island family that has owned Gardiner's Island for nearly 400 years, lived in the home for years. Now, Shahab Karmely, a New York-based real-estate investor, is selling the home because he and his family plan to…

Bottled water? That's so '80s.



The $14.4 billion bottled-water market has come under fire for being environmentally incorrect as those discarded plastic containers keep piling up in landfills.



Meanwhile, decades of marketing that touted costly bottled water as cleaner, healthier and better tasting than tap water…

Nothing seems to be going right for the debt-laden countries in southern Europe.

According to the Financial Times Javier Blas, wholesale olive oil prices are at 10-year low:

“The market is in serious crisis,” said Pekka Pesonen, head of the Copa-Cogeca farming union in Brussels. “This crop is vital for the main producing…

In the middle of a 5-run ninth inning that propelled Vanderbilt to an 8-6 win over Florida in the SEC tournament, the Commodores pulled off a rare triple steal. Vandy went on to lose to Mississippi State in the championship game.

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