Stacey Vanek Smith

What are Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner thankful for? Hint: We’re not Europe.

As more and more consumers use smartphones and apps to find the best deals, brick and mortar retailers are ramping up customer service and expertise to gain an edge.

North Dakota oil towns have jobs aplenty but nowhere to live. Williston used to get five new homes a year. This year, 2,000 will be built.

Occupy Wall Street references have seeped into daily lingo and situations that have nothing to do with money, movements or Wall Street.

Recently evicted, the Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to keep its momentum going even after leaving Zuccotti Park.

The U.S. central bank, known as the Federal Reserve, is the lender of last resort. Its bond-buying orgy bailed out banks during the financial crisis and rescued the economy. But its European equivalent has neither the ability not the will to do the same for the eurozone.

In the early hours of the morning, New York City police evacuated Occupy protests from their home in Zuccotti Park, but they say that won't stop them from going on.

Occupy Wall Street set up its protest near New York's financial district on September 17. Estimates have been that 200 people have been living there. Now, New York police have raided the park and report they have arrested 70 people.

Occupy Wall Street protesters ask a judge to overrule New York's ban on tents in Zuccotti Park.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Occupy Wall Street can return to Zuccotti Park today -- but without tents. The demonstrators want a judge to rule that's illegal.