Boston Sand & Gravel will now be powered almost completely by clean energy.The company announced its 110 kilowatt solar energy plant is now operational. The solar power plant was manufactured and installed by Evergreen Solar.

Big international oil companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars storing crude on tankers offshore in a trading play that environmentalists say sidesteps shipping rules and puts coastlines at risk.

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday created a program that will make up to $540 billion available to buy assets from money-market mutual funds. This should ease cash crunches for pension funds, university endowments, and where alot of Americans keep cash-stash

The new boss of US insurance giant AIG explains why the firm needed to be rescued by a loan from the Federal Reserve. © 2008 BBC

Wachovia has the distinction of posting the biggest quarterly loss for a banking company during the current credit crisis. The bank, currently being acquired by Wells Fargo, posted a $23.9 billion third-quarter loss thanks to continued erosion in the valu

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Bill Lasher Jr. remembers what it felt like to go from being a jock playing varsity sports in high school to being in a wheelchair."When you're in high school, the whole time it is about being cool. It is hard to be cool when you are in a crappy wheelchai

Se y'all in the poorhouse! We're on the skids to Third World country status.

This is not a good sign...how many more jobs are going to other countries when people accept the buyout? The economy is sinking fast and so is our future.

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