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Business owners beware: some fake bills have been used in downtown Bozeman in recent weeks. Counterfeit money costs small businesses millions every year so keep your eyes open!

In the state of Montana we appreciate working hard for our money. But when it comes to greed, how much do we tend to stockpile and not share our earnings?

The cost of Christmas is going up.

As of 12:01 a.m. EST on Tuesday, the federal government closed down. Congressional leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate were unable to reach an agreement on a budget or a temporary fix, known as a continuing resolution, before the start of the new fiscal year on October 1.

It's rarely argued that Bozeman's a cool place. It's still got that small town feel but is big enough to have all the amenities you'd find in larger cities like big box stores, chains of all kinds and even discount specialty shops. Being a pretty hard core local myself (whatever that means these days), it's sometimes hard for me to spend ALL my money in town.

We have a building full of super smart ladies and I always like to hear when someone is excited about saving for their retirement. Yeah, I'm that girl.

Get ready to throw away all those ratty old Benjamins that are just laying around your house—the newly designed $100 bill will be going into circulation in October.

The Tooth Fairy is spreading the wealth.

Doing the right thing could end up rewarding Bozeman in a big way. Bozeman has been selected to participate in the Recycle Rewards Green Choices Recycling Challenge, and the city could be awarded $100,000 in grant money. Details here:

Take a minute to watch this quick security tape. Can you identify these two jerks stealing tip money from the hard working staff at the Naked Noodle?

You know about shopping holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but how about Back-to-School Saturday?

I yell at my friends a lot. For many things. But often about saving for retirement. So here's a super quickie check on how much (ballpark) you'll need for retirement: (I know what "my number" is...you should too.)