Official recovery or not, it turns out that cities around the world still have a long way to go to get back to where they were before the downturn. ...

(Lisa Lambert) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longest and deepest economic down...

Rallies cannot continue forever unchecked. Though recovery rallies tend to last a year or two, at some point they falter into one large step backwards, usually half as ugly as the prior decline.

We may be entering an era of Karmic Capitalism when business realizes what goes around, comes around. Let's hope that the captains of industry apply noblesse oblige to the business world.

I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week.