Weekly financial Q&A, with items on investing and home equity loans.

Weekly business rail, with a tip on a hot career, BBB advice on shopping online this holiday season and more.

Weekly auto rail, with tips on what to do if you’re in a car accident, Car Q&A with Junior Damato and more.

I don’t know how all of you feel about shopping. I only go shopping out of duress or a dire need to purchase something to wear at the last minute for some occasion. Otherwise, I avoid malls like the plague.

Genetics is about to join race, religion, sex, color and national origin among workplace protections against discrimination. The Genetics Information Nondiscrimination Act, signed into law by President Bush in 2008, prohibits employers from discriminating based on genetic testing or history of workers or job applicants, including as part of health coverage. Civil rights, ethics and business groups say the change, which will take effect Saturday, is the most significant civil rights legislation since the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991.

Turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and the rest of the traditional trimmings for a classic Thanksgiving dinner have dropped four percent in price this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Black Friday, our newest unofficial holiday, will dawn cold and cheap to thundering herds of price-crazed shoppers. At least that’s the hope of retailers. With the Christmas shopping season often fickle, they never know for sure. Black Friday is an example of media and commercial fabrication. It is not the busiest shopping day sales wise and pales to the day after Christmas.

How much money will you spend this year on holiday shopping? If you’re like many people, you’re feeling cautious about the economy, and that will affect your holiday spending.

Weekly business rail, with tips on a safe career, BBB advice on layaway and more.

Weekly financial Q&A, with items on The Legacy Drawer and land purchases.

This guy knows from experience that the customer is not always right. A.J. Adams’ book contains the 100 best anecdotes from the author’s Web site, and also 100 new stories. Much of it will seem strange to customers not actually portrayed in the volume. But retail employees might find the world the book describes rather recognizable.

A Manhattan fashion photographer for most of the year, Belwing Turkey Farm co-owner Roslyn Dickens spends a little portion of each year raising thousands of turkeys that will eventually become part of Thanksgiving dinner.

The 2011 Lexus LF-A is powered by an all-new 4.8-liter V10 engine so sophisticated it’s built in the same limited-production plant that produces the engines for Toyota’s Formula One race cars. Featuring such track-ready technology as titanium valves, it can rev to a blinding 9,000 RPMs, and make 552 horsepower in the process. Power is fed through a six-speed sequential manual gearbox to the rear wheels.

This Thanksgiving, our budget is tighter than in years’ past, posing a big challenge to this entertaining junkie. I can’t bear the thought of running out of food. I struggle to say “no” to special décor and like to pull together recipes with way more ingredients than servings. This year, I’ll implement a few strategies to ensure that I stay within the entertaining budget and get to enjoy myself a bit, too.

Weekly auto rail, with cold-weather car care tips, Car Q&A with Junior Damato and more.