I'm sure this retreat at the St. Regis Resort Monarch Beach is going to do wonders for our moribund economy. Revealed during a hearing on AIG at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Sen. Henry Waxman and others blasted AIG.

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke says the economic outlook is growing worse. On Wall Street: a 330-point slide in the Dow Jones Industrials. Bank of America lost 18% of its value today. Will a cut in the interest rate stem the flow of red ink?

I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.

Despite the Miracle of the Sacred Bailout, the world economy is shattering & sinking. Now the Federal Reserve has a new brainstorm: "Hey kids, let's buy vast amounts of unsecured short-term debt that companies use to finance their day-to-day activities!"

The collapse of major market sectors in the US has spread like a plague across the economic landscape of the globe. There is growing fear that the the financial growth many countries have recently realized will evaporate in the wake of instability.

California is apparently in dire straits - so much so that AHnald has sent a letter to Treasury Czar Henry Paulson with feelers for $7 billion dollars from the Feds. Hey, where do we get in line?

All about doughnuts - how they evolved into a guilty but irresistible indulgence.

The following unedited responses to our questions provide an opportunity for you to learn more about their policies and plans on the environment.

Care2 member Mary Neal speaks out!

Hard cider was for years the drink of choice for many colonial Americans. My own colonial American, Rick, still loves it and has one from time to time. Entertaining piece on hard cider, apple varieties used and taste testing.