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Tough economic times have tested the vast majority of Americans -- and that includes celebrities.
Janet Murguía | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
One of the most devastating consequences of today's economic turmoil is the large-scale loss of nearly a generation of wealth among Latino homeowners.
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact
"We didn't have enough money to cremate her," Bob Wessenberg of Coppell, Texas, recalls, after being faced with his wife's catastrophic illness and th...
New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn't a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took ...
Manisha Thakor | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Thanks to the Credit Card Act of 2009, relief from credit card debt is on its way. Come February 22, 2010 there will be new consumer protections put in place. This legislation has something for everyone.
Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
After a whirlwind week that saw their family featured on the front page of The Huffington Post and $30,000 raised to help them pay their overwhelming ...
Newsweek | Linda Stern | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Older Americans are heading into and through retirement with a boatload of debt. They're carrying everything from mortgages and home-equity loans to b...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
UPDATE: Due to an overwhelming response from the HuffPost community, we've extended the length of this fundraiser, raising our goal to $30,000 (we wer...
ft.com | Thomas Palley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
Over the past year the global economy has experienced a massive contraction, the deepest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But this spring, eco...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash. Over eight days, it fell 2,400 point...
nytimes.com | Paul Krugman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
This article on the continued troubles in credit markets was informative. But it raised a puzzle. Call me naive, but why does Fed policy seem to assum...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Angry masses see the recession as purely financial. This is false. Policy makers have rushed to address the financial crisis. This is near sighted. We have addressed one of our afflictions and left the greater economic problems under-appreciated and unaddressed.
HuffingtonPost | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
TAMPA, Fla. — A widow claims that debt collectors hounded her husband to death with as many as nine caustic calls per day, causing stress that c...
Gary Shapiro | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business
Pittsburgh's experience offers a road map for American cities adjusting to manufacturing downturns and the new realities of the modern global economy.
Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
With foreclosure filings topping 300,000 for the sixth straight month, Senate Democrats are considering a return to a contentious battle they lost in ...
Manisha Thakor | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living
In these recessionary times, financial tips are flowing fast and furious about how to save money and stick to a budget. Facing a sea of information many people are asking, "Where do I start?"
David Paul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
For two decades now, we have become accustomed to justifying any manner of spending, from education to tax cuts, as an investment in our future.
Iris Martin | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
We are in the middle of a monumental political conflict with very high stakes. On one side: politicians and regulators battling for the interests of middle-class Americans. On the other: the banks.
Loral Langemeier | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
Take control of what you think. Start fresh with new ideas. Doing this will help you begin to have the right conversation about money and reap the rewards.
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Why are Republicans and Blue Dogs playing political tricks just to defend insurance companies and peddling a perverted version of an America where the government aiding its citizens is treated like an act of treason?
Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.
Christopher Ingram | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Getting all worked up over Obama's school house speech is a distraction and a diversion from the real problems facing our country.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight.
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Manisha Thakor | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business