For years environmental and shareholder activists have pushed companies that generate greenhouse gases, to disclose how climate change could affect their financial stability outlook.

Retailers' sales fell as much as 4 percent during the holiday season, as the weak economy and bad weather created one of the worst holiday shopping climates in modern times,

Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog", "broadband" and "celebrity".

20th anniversary of MultinationalMonitor's annual list of yr's Worst Corps is a winner: financial meltdown/economic crisis showed corps left to own devices will destroy themselves & system that nurtures them. Saving life still not good business, either..

Obama must help the ailing US auto industry change their focus from "bigger and faster" to "More Fuel Efficient" or a "Green Focus" in order to rebuild and survive

President-elect Barack Obama outlines a recovery plan, warns the worst may be yet to come, and is crafting a two-year aggressive stimulus plan. It is hoped that this intervention would save millions of jobs from being lost next year.

Deflation would be very damaging to the United States economy and with nominal interest rates already very low, quantitative easing may be needed to keep it at bay, a top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday.

Try $4.28 trillion dollars. That's $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a variety of estimates and sources*. Are you enraged yet?

IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.

As Detroit's crumbling auto industry asks Congress for a bailout, Chrysler is in the awkward position of paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives while the company cuts thousands of jobs.