Economists Predict Job Losses Will Stop In Early 2010
Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...
Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of st...
Liz Neumark | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
Year Two of The Great Recession is already 2 months old. As a high profile off-premises caterer and leaseholder of the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom, ...
Grant Cardone | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
The so-called Great Recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, may be over but you won't feel relief unless you and your company are able to sell your products and services.
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.
Michael Brenner | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business
Here is a quick everyman's guide to economic statistics. Making sense of the figures demands a large measure of skepticism and an eye for misrepresentation and forgery.
Adam Hanft | Posted 10.31.2009 | Living
The fact that 80% of the recent jobs lost were held by men; people who have volunteered for Bloomberg's third term bid; getting Facebook invitations from people who campaigned for Eugene McCarthy.
David Adkins | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
As we debate what government's response should be to combating a still-growing unemployment rate we might want to take a page from our international competitors.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
I fear the fallout of this year's Great Recession has been forgotten and is now as dusty a memory as that of Black Tuesday, which occurred 80 years ago -- October 29, 1929.
AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The cascade of bank failures this year surpassed 100 on Friday, the most in nearly two decades. And the trouble in the banking syst...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
In New York, the oldest and snobbiest financial ventures are called "white shoe" firms. Their arrogance, risky investments and confounding dealing in derivatives threw the rest of us into the Great Recession.
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment market could ling...
ft.com | Mort Zuckerman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Today there is no evidence of job creation. Quite the opposite: unemployment is rising and millions of jobs have disappeared. In place of thrift we ha...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Give me the disappointment of a world without freshly-baked Twinkies in exchange for wondering how the State of Illinois will keep all the poor people in food stamps next year.
nydailynews.com | Kenneth Lovett | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
Get ready for more pain. Gov. Paterson will propose $2.5 billion in budget cuts today - primarily in health and education - to close a mushrooming def...
nytimes.com | Diane Cardwell | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
At the end of a dark passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, almost 50 artworks have suddenly parked in a bright, spare gallery. ...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
With a few exceptions, the Lehman coverage consisted of the usual anniversary fare, from the pedestrian where-are-they-now stories to the handwringing what-have-we-learned pieces.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.
nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic ter...
New York Times | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
The Great Recession is pushing many highly educated women who had left work to stay at home with their children to dive back into the labor pool, acco...
WXXI | Karen DeWitt | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
ALBANY, NEW YORK (WXXI) - A new report finds that while New York has been hit hard by the so-called "Great Recession," federal stimulus monies have bu...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
The real lesson of the Lehman meltdown and failure may turn out to be that it was not a deep enough shock to change a political and economic system that seems to require liquidity-driven growth.
Alan Schram | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business
The Chinese economy is posting impressive growth of almost 8% annually, even as the rest of the world is going through excruciating economic pain. How is that resilience possible?
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Do we really want, as a matter of national policy, Americans to spend, to take on more debt?
bloomberg.com | Matthew Benjamin and Rich Miller | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Post-recession America may be saddled with high unemployment even after good times finally return. Hundreds of thousands of jo...
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business