There's something growing in the New Jersey Meadowlands, the marsh just nine miles west of Manhattan--and it isn't the gentle ferns that the bucolic n...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The worst monthly drop on record for retail sales set off new alarm bells about the economy Friday, stepping up pressure on policym...
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO and SARA LEPRO | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street ended a turbulent week with another astonishing show of volatility Friday, with stocks plunging, recovering and then plun...
Dave Johnson | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business
On The NewsHour today Alice Rivlin said that we need to free up the credit markets so people can buy cars. She said there are "credit-worthy" people ...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Retailers suffered through the weakest October in at least 39 years, despite frenzied price cutting as they desperately try to pull i...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.04.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — After months rife with uncertainty and unprecedented events that have roiled and reshaped Wall Street, at least one major unknown s...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street ended the calmest session in recent memory with a narrowly mixed performance Monday as investors largely looked past a we...
Mark Cooper | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business
Relentless increases in gas prices have taken a huge bite out of consumer pocketbooks. Annual expenditures on gas and motor oil have increased by well over $1,300 in the past five years.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Evidence of a recession piled ever higher Friday, with new figures showing Americans are spending less and gloomy about the economy...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Scared and out of money, Americans stopped buying everything from cars to corn flakes in the July-September quarter, ratcheting bac...
Wendy Wanderman | Posted 10.28.2008 | Business
It would seem very difficult for McCain to get elected if the country has absolutely no confidence in spending money because they fear that business conditions are worsening.
Danny Schechter | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business
In what was for many an unbelievable chain of events, markets started melting down, confidence shattered and believers in unregulated transactions realized something was very, very wrong.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.22.2008 | Living
I read somewhere lately that we wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. Maybe we only need that 20%.
Michael Pento | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business
It now takes about 10 cents on every tax dollar collected just to pay the interest on the debt. As bad as that is, it's only because interest rates are at record lows that the debt is still manageable.
Maura Judkis | Posted 10.14.2008 | Green
Right now, consumers across the country are looking for ways to cut back. Luckily, some of the best ways to save money are also simple steps toward living a little greener.
Joan Steinau Lester | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
Cash-strapped California, which legalized marriage equality in June, is already reaping a multimillion dollar windfall. Just let same-sex couples marry--your homegrown ones and those from other states--and you'll be floating in cash.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.07.2008 | Style
One of my clients recently labeled herself a bulimic shopper. She buys clothes, brings them home, and then returns them. She says it is exactly like a food binge.
Kris DiGiovanni | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home
I'm not an economist, so I'm having a hard time determining what is actually true, and what is just partisan propaganda. But what I don't hear in all this rhetoric is how either of these scenarios directly affects me -- the average American.
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 09.01.2008 | Business
Slashing computer prices helped Dell Inc. boost sales in its fiscal second quarter, but the No. 2 PC maker's bottom line took a hit when efforts to cu...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 08.29.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Consumer spending slowed to a crawl and personal incomes plunged in July, reflecting the waning impact of $93 billion in economic s...
AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 08.19.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — The Home Depot Inc. said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit sank 24 percent and reiterated its downbeat outlook for the year amid ...
New York Times | CATHERINE RAMPELL | Posted 08.04.2008 | Business
Consumers spent more in June, but only because the things they bought cost more. Driven primarily by energy and food prices, inflation grew 0.8 perce...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate...
Morgan Warners | Posted 07.28.2008 | Living
How disgustingly coincidental is it that the good girl icon got blown sky high by sex, drugs, and anorexia at the same time that the economy has gone bust?
The Los Angeles Times | Richard Fausset, P.J. Huffstutter and Stephen Braun | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
ATLANTA -- It is better than nothing. That has been the subdued mantra repeated by working Americans in recent weeks as they spend the Bush administr...
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WASHINGTON — The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought...
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Newsweek | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business