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.

This Holiday season WM is pushing cash and credit cards. There is no "need" for previously offered lay-away plan! WM's "slump strategy" is to slide below the $ radar of competitors. Driven by GREED is the new corporate philosophy! SORRY FOLKS!

U.S. labor unions, having helped Barack Obama win the presidency, entertain high hopes he will enact their agenda to bolster their negotiating power with employers and increase their numbers after decades of decline.

A man-made island housing a hydroelectric plant and generating enough electricity to supply two million Dutch homes is planned for the North Sea by 2020.

30-minute version of the Sundance-selected documentary I.O.U.S.A. that clearly, simply and frighteningly explains America's staggering economic problems. A must-see. Thanks to Pete C. for the link.

Local authorities say the number of families seeking help has risen in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle and Washington.

Both state socialism and unfettered capitalism share this weakness: giving economic systems priority over political values creates terrible cognitive dissonance.

Falling markets don't tell the whole story. You need to understand the real world consequences of the way you invest. Otherwise, you are bound to repeat the problem. Here is the tale of two investors. Both are true. The names have been changed to protect

Under existing rules, banks cannot count the Treasury Department's investment as part of their core capital, the foundation of money that supports a bank's operations. The very goal of the plan was to buttress those foundations,

At Evergreen Federal Bank in Grants Pass, Ore., chief executive Brady Adams said he has more than 2,000 loans outstanding and only three borrowers behind on payments. "We don't need a bailout, and if other banks had run their banks like we ran our bank...