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In an Op Ed article in the NYT dated January 5, Paul Krugman writes that for many years, the predominant view has been that it would be quite easy to prevent another Great Depression. For example, Robert Lucas of the...

With little or no marketing of this particular Coca-Cola “brand,” Mexican-produced Coke has suddenly become all the rage in the San Francisco Bay Area. The popularity of pop in the old-fashioned green glass bottle brings back more than just memories...

By now we are all up to our ears in auto industry bailout junk. Instead of regurgitating the obvious, I'm just going to give my dos centavos. Why is it that these CEOs and other executive mucky-mucks are made out...

When placed side by side, Halloween news reports take on a nightmarish quality. Some say that Halloween time is the season when the veil between the "worlds" [this world and the world hereafter] is thin. If we use this season...

It's an age-old story: immigrants arrive in the US hopeful they can make a better life for themselves. And most also hope they can send some money back to make life a bit easier for the family they left behind....

WASHINGTON - It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending...

In a blatant display of chauvinism bordering on racism, an incensed Ford dealer opposed the proposed bailout of American automakers, blamed Congress for the economic and financial crisis and mocked buyers of Japanese cars in a radio ad, calling the...

In one the most bizarre explanations of the present global financial and economic situation, a NYT article of December 26 titled Dollar Shift: Chinese Pockets Filled as Americans’ Emptied gives the absurd impression that China is taking away America’s riches....

If you can stomach heights, a new feature on the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere-the Sears Tower-is for you! The new "Ledge" that opens today (7/2/09) will let its Skydeck visitors stare straight down 1,353 feet (gulp!). It is...