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BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Gallup's new tool gauges consumer confidence daily. Right now, 85% of Americans say economic conditions are getting worse There's a new traffic report every 10 minutes, and stock prices change by the second. But the two best-known indicators of consume.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

MSNBC -- Americans are keeping their cars and trucks longer as quality improves and the uncertain economy makes new purchases less appealing, according to a study released this week by automotive consulting firm R.L. Polk & Co. Polk said the median age of cars.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Feb 18, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Poll register uneasiness A year ago — months before economic alarms went off — nearly two of three Americans polled by The Rockefeller Foundation said that they felt somewhat or a lot less economically secure then they did a decade ago. Half said t.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- Like a lot of Americans, Anne Violette is having trouble with her mortgage. Violette, a self-employed photographer, moved to Delray Beach, Fla., in 2004 and bought a home with a 30-year fixed-rate loan. A year later, she said, a friend in the mortgage.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Oct 23, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- The son of Italian immigrants who turned an Armenian recipe into Rice-A-Roni, the popular dish known to Americans since the 1960s as "The San Francisco Treat," has died, his family said on Monday. Vincent DeDomenico died on Thursday of natural causes a.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Mon Sep 3, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

New York Times -- IT’S Labor Day weekend, so let’s talk about labor. (Capital absorbs our attention most of the other 364 days of the year.) Around 140 million people are employed in the United States. They are engaged in work like governing, manufacturing, health c.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 4:46pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Want to hire cheaper foreign workers instead of Americans? A lawyer tells you how to game the immigration system—and it's all on YouTube The video looks as though it could have been shot at almost any sleepy corporate seminar in the country, with one.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 11:52pm neoform

MSNBC -- Smith said that the company's long-term internal forecast shows gas at about $2.50 a gallon, a range that he said would not inspire “a seismic shift in consumption habits.” All the subcompact vehicles on the U.S. market already offer decent fuel ec.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Wed May 16, 2007 @ 10:50pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- African Americans are snapping up broadband--and closing the digital divide Speedy internet connections once were considered perks for the privileged. Robust Net access was enjoyed by 30% of U.S. households as late as 2005, mostly in white homes. Meanw.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Despite rosy reports on jobs and strength in stock indexes, polls show that Americans are none too impressed Do ordinary Americans know something about the U.S. economy that the experts don't? A perception gap has opened up lately between Wall Street a.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:58am neoform

Alter Net -- How do we stop the credit industry's predatory business model and get Americans out of debt when incomes aren't rising as fast as the costs of healthcare and housing? Last week, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve Board were forced to remind the nation's.. Read More