No matter what standard one might use to measure the extent of the current financial crisis, all the results confirm what the average consumer has known for a long time -- we are in hard times and they are getting more difficult. An article in The Economist insists that "the integration of the ...

Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

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My college friend Bruce Weber, a reporter for the New York Times, is the author of " As They See `Em -- A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires " being published this month by Scribner.  The following is a lightly edited transcript of our recent e-mail exchange: EZ:  Take me...

Filed under: Money & work, Resources In 1956, Coach Jerry Sacharski couldn't turn away the little guys who showed up wanting to be part of his summer baseball program, so he started the first PeeWee T-ball league to teach the six -to-eight-year-old set the fundamentals of baseball and a thing or...

Written by Mark Sullivan We found a battery of new sites and services–such as LinkedIn JobsInsider, Recessionwire, and Uberi.com–dedicated to providing the kind of cost-cutting, job-search, and moral-support tools that can be invaluable during lean times. As the economy continues to suff...

Megan McArdle explains why she thinks that people do-to some degree-have a moral obligation to repay their debts (lengthy excerpt warning): Four weeks ago, I bought a grill on my credit card. It was not the best grill Home Depot had--indeed, because I am cheap, and also have never longed to rotisser...

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There’s an overwhelming number of news items here tonight — almost a hundred. If you all think that this operation is becoming unmanageably large, please let me know. With all the juicy items that people send me, it’s hard to pick which ones to leave out. Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, CSP, ...