News In Brief

This final note today, a somewhat distressing sign of the economic times, direct from Bentonville, Ark....

The Fed Chairman said today that he "expects economic growth to improve slowly and inflation to ease":http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents...

This final note today. It's come to this: the Euro debt crisis, explained in Legos. Seriously....

Or should I say, another problem. Operation Twist is designed to lower long term interest rates, in order to make it cheaper or consumers to borrow...

This is from a recent Business Insider post by Joe Wiesenthal:...

This final note on the way out today, just to put things into some kind of Sept. 11th perspective....

The August jobs report is out and it was even worse than last month. The Labor Department said the US economy did not add any jobs last month (an...

Insurance company Allstate has released it seventh annual "Allstate America's Best Drivers Report" revealing the American cities with the best an...

The U.S. job situation in August is a carbon copy of July (which was revised today to 85,000 new jobs instead of the previously reported 117,000)...

This final note today. It being the first of the month, here's your Detroit-versus-the-world update....