The Dow is about to go over 10,000 again. Won't that be nice? Yay for those cockeyed optimists! They make the world go 'round!
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
After Ed (aka "eating disorder") and I broke up, I have to admit that I splurged a little. I am not usually much of a shopper, but I was so excited about my life without Ed that I wanted to explore some new things.
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
Regardless of what the jobs recovery eventually looks like, it hasn't started yet. The economy is still losing 250,000+ jobs a month.
Rob Morrison | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
There were times over the past year and a half that I cursed my stay-at-home status. Privately, I worried if I'd ever have the chance to resume my career.
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
Part memoir, part how-to book, peppered with behind-the-scenes of TV journalism, Velez courageously chronicles her quest from "insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism."
Danny Schechter | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up ...
Jim Thomas | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver
We don't need to resolve a complex national debate on health care to help small companies. Easier access to cash will enable emerging companies to start hiring and our Colorado economy to start climbing.
New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 11.26.2009 | Home
Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Depa...
John J. Castellani | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
New rules would limit the flexibility of U.S. businesses to redeploy capital to geographic areas that show the most promise for growth and also eliminate vital foreign tax credits.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
Many observers believed that planned hotel and restaurant projects would fall by the wayside when the economy tanked last fall. That didn't happen.
Pat Choate | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Direct government employment is the fastest, surest and least expensive - if not the only - way to create enough new jobs for American teens.
wellness.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Untreated alcohol and drug addiction in the United States remains at pandemic levels, with little change from year to year, an expert says....
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Wall Street has all the sentience, maturity and emotional self-control of a teenager...or maybe of a 50-year-old guy with a tiny ponytail and a red BMW Z4.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Are the green shoots real, or are the government economy-minders taking premature credit to dampen populist anger? Let's hope they aren't simply seeing some dandelions in the lawn and calling it springtime.
Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York
September 15, 2008 -- the day that Lehman died, one year later.
John O'Kane | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Bailing out big banks has hardly contributed to a climate conducive to free markets and competition. On the contrary, it has allowed institutions already too big to fail to gobble up other banks.
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
How do we make sure what happened in terms of the recklessness and irresponsibility on Wall Street doesn't happen again? I wish that I could tell you that Congress is now doing that investigation. It is not.
TIME | Joshua Cooper Ramo Friday, Sep. 11, 2009 | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Will creating jobs be that much slower too? Will double-digit unemployment persist even after we emerge from this recession? Has the idea of full empl...
Carole Bennett | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
As a professional family substance abuse counselor, I encourage my clients to attend Al-anon and find out if it is something they wish to incorporate in their recovery. Some swear by it, others are shunned.
Therese Borchard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
I chase the adrenaline rush, the dopamine high, that is akin to the buzz I get from smoking an entire cigarette in three puffs after staying away from lung rockets for a year or more.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
There are three parts to the woes of American workers -- falling wages, rising unemployment, and insecurity about the future. More robust policies could improve all three.
A Compulsive Overeater | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
After battling addiction for years, young DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) was found dead last week with OxyContin in his stomach and throat. He was working...
John F. Wasik | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home
There is visible progress from the stimulus spending. About $60 billion of the $288 billion in promised tax cuts has flowed into the pockets of most middle- and lower-class Americans.
DivineCaroline | Allison Ford | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Addiction is the inability to discontinue reckless or harmful behavior. Addicts can't stop themselves from self-destructing, whatever their choice of ...
Grant Cardone | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
Revenue creation is now the holy grail and things like organizing, planning and long management meetings must be put on the back burner
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business