Last week we asked our SheFinds staff to reveal the one article of clothing they can't live without this winter. We found it kind of hilarious that every staple is either black or grey.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy
It's fun watching kids learning stuff they didn't know. Grownups are more knowledgeable, of course. But we may not be as knowledgeable as we think.
Grant Cardone | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
Marketing without a trained sales team is a "one way" vehicle, causing the company to only activate at the point of marketing and then become passive.
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — This is one recession Americans aren't going to spend their way out of. The Conference Board said Tuesday its Consumer Confidence In...
The Economist | Posted 02.22.2009 | Business
Martin Luther King once described Sunday mornings, when people go to church, as the most segregated moment in American life. That is probably still tr...
Reuters | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business
Inflation slowed to a half-century low last year and industrial output fell for the first time since 2002, data showed on Friday, as the recession dee...
Reverend Billy | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green
When the billboard disappears, then we find that nature was waiting directly behind it, and a terrible storm is brewing. The earth was not shopping with us.
Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.04.2009 | Home
Armed with some basic instructions from articles and websites, I decided to do some shopping -- with a new attitude.
Reverend Billy | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living
So the retail bubble finally burst, with some estimating an extreme contraction of up to 8%. An America where local economies strike a balance with the big companies is clearly the idea.
Perry Yeatman | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living
I, for one, have no interest in spending 2009 complaining about all that has gone wrong. I'd much rather focus on fixing things and trying to be happy.
MSNBC/Local News | Posted 01.30.2009 | Home
Three men were arrested when a brawl broke out at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin the day after Christmas. Local news reports: The big-tim...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 01.28.2009 | Living
Standing in the nearly empty mall observing the lack of buying interest, I wondered if maybe the American way of measuring status by stuff and price tag is getting turned upside down.
Lisa Wade | Posted 01.27.2009 | Style
There is something truly amazing about a sign touting "Doorbuster!" sales that shows how quickly we forget, how callous we can be, and the level of incompetence at JCPenney.
Clusterstock | Harry Blodget | Posted 01.27.2009 | Business
Retailing has always been a tough business. Now it's a brutal business. Some observers now predict that more than 25% of retailers may go bust in th...
AP | LAUREN SHEPHERD | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business
Two hours before the doors were set to open Friday morning, a Miami-area Wal-Mart parking lot was full of cars _ and possibility. But in a Christmas s...
Reverend Billy | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living
Christmas is the celebration of a birth--and so it celebrates a death, too. The heat and the light increase in each 24-hour period, and this day in wh...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 01.25.2009 | World
As the rest of the world braces for a global economic dive, thousands of visitors flood into Beirut. The streets are crowded, shops are bustling and political chatter takes an unusual backseat to celebration.
Wall Street Journal | ANN ZIMMERMAN, JENNIFER SARANOW and MIGUEL BUSTILLO | Posted 01.25.2009 | Business
Price-slashing failed to rescue a bleak holiday season for beleaguered retailers, as sales plunged across most categories on shrinking consumer spendi...
Eric Kuhn | Posted 01.22.2009 | Entertainment
Looking for the perfect stocking stuffer? I've got for you three interviews with authors who recently published fictional novels with political overtones.
Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
If only there were a way to immediately link the immediate pleasure of downing that pint of Cherry Garcia with the distant pain of feeling like a lard ass.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 01.22.2009 | Style
Kids' fiction unleashes our long-ago dampened imaginations, so take a break from that Salman Rushdie book you're reading, and treat your mind to a kids book this holiday.
Robert Tolmach | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living
Educating girls is the quickest route to alleviating poverty in Africa, but the direct costs of education, including shoes, keep millions of girls out of school each year.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 01.15.2009 | Home
When I think of Christmas, I see the stuff under trees: toys and books and computers, DVD players and colorful paper. I don't mean the Christmas tree...
Julia Moulden | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living
It's that time of year again. But this holiday season feels different, doesn't it? Lots of people are shifting their gift giving practices so that the...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Signs that the recession will be long and severe mounted Friday with a fresh round of bad economic news, including plunging sales f...
Michelle Madhok | Posted 03.05.2009 | Style