Birth Rate Plunges During Recession

Birth rates hit an historic low in America last year. This small number of newborns will hit the workforce in 20 years, just as the last baby boomer reaches full...

Small Towns Get Boost From Oil, Gas as Wealth Shifts Away From Cities

The Great Recession hit small towns hard. But according to a new analysis, small-town America is actually experiencing an economic revival thanks to an oil and...

It’s Official: Eurozone Enters Second Recession In Three Years

Despite positive growth in France and Germany, official figures show the 17-nation euro bloc sinking into its second recession since 2009—with experts warning...

The Recession in Pictures: America Copes with a Stagnant Economy

Economist Kenneth Rogoff says we shouldn’t call what happened to America in 2008 and 2009 a "Great Recession" because it understates the true nature of the...

Will the Global Economy Tumble Off America’s Fiscal Cliff?

If the U.S. can’t resolve its looming budget problems, the fallout could plunge the entire world economy into a chasm

25 Years Later: In the Crash of 1987, the Seeds of the Great Recession

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This quote, often attributed to Mark Twain, resonates with us for its pithy description of an irony we...

Are We Already in A Recession?

What’s in a name? Would a recession by any other name be as painful? That’s the debate that raged a few years ago as economists and commentators debated whether...

How Columbus, Ohio Bounced Back from the Recession

The Columbus metropolitan area has created more jobs than any other place in Ohio over the last two years and it’s become a model for what an economy can do when...

Five Reasons Why It Could Be the Opportunity of a Lifetime to Buy a House

The oft-quoted investment advice to “buy when blood is running in the streets” is usually attributed to one of the members of the Rothschild banking family. The...

Ritzy Retail

One of the supposed victims of the rise of e-commerce is the traditional shopping mall. Over the past five years, there have been numerous reports of the decline...

Will the Stock Market Keep On Rising?

Since the beginning of the year, many commentators, including myself, have questioned whether stock prices can continue moving higher. Although there is a good...

Detropia: Filmmakers Behind New Detroit Doc Talk Recession, Recovery and Decay Tourism

How to make a Detroit documentary that isn't just 'ruin porn'

Is the U.S. Headed for a Double-Dip Recession?

In addition to a host of warnings, last Wednesday’s Congressional Budget Office report did contain a little bit of good news. The economy will grow slightly...

Is the Recession Hurting College Enrollment?

Harvard, Yale and a few other selective universities may be announcing record numbers of applicants for the semester beginning in the fall, but higher-education...

U.S. Households Still Digging Out of Recession-Related Debt

After the recession, many Americans began cutting back and slowly chipping away at their household debt. Unfortunately, this noble effort seems to have tapered...

Is the Wimpy Recovery Now Morphing Into A Recession?

We’ve just begun coming to grips with the Wimpy Recovery. Are we actually in for another recession? That was the implication of a couple of economic reports I...

Talking TV on the Radio: Primetime and the Recession (and/or Recovery)

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post here about how, whatever signs of economic rebound are going on in the actual economy, TV shows were still talking about...

Maybe Pet Spending Isn’t Recession-Proof After All

Throughout the worst of the economic crisis and a post-recession era bogged down by uncertainty and high unemployment, consumer spending on pets remained strong...