Economy

Along with lost jobs and the housing market crash, America’s economic woes have taken another toll: one in six people — 49 million in all — are having trouble keeping food on the table, especially in Forsyth County. Although this Atlanta suburb’s average household income reaches $88,000, one of the highest in the US, their food banks have never been busier feeding the needy.

Turning up the dial on your thermostat in the fall and winter months is bound to add major coin to your electric bill, so you power through. Unless you live in Utah, and then you really have nothing to worry about, according to new data released this week.

The recession may have left unemployment rates a mess and killed the housing market, but if you’re looking for a silver lining, here it is: we’re all better shoppers now because of it.

According to the American Farm Bureau, the price of Thanksgiving dinner will be 13 percent higher this year than last, marking the biggest jump since 1990.

In September, Bank of America announced it would soon begin charging customers a $5 monthly fee for using their debit cards, saying it was recouping losses from new laws that limited how much it could charge merchants when debit cards were swiped during transactions. But after a firestorm of negative publicity, BofA waved the white flag of surrender and scrapped the controversial plan.

As a child when we went to church, we were given a penny or maybe a nickle or dime to put into the offering plate as it came around.

Insomnia isn’t just a bad deal for those who suffer through it. It’s also a bad deal for the nation’s economy.

Labor Day means a three day weekend and respite from hard work for many, but it also means it's the season for end-of-summer deals. Here are some of the best savings of the season, from clothing to back-to-school gear.   American Eagle 1 American Eagle     All men's and women's jeans are on sale, with prices starting at $29.99.   Gap Kids 2...

The Haynes car.  One of the first cars to hit the road back in 1893.  America was getting ready to turn the corner and head into the next century as an industrial giant.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is mad about what has been happening in Washington, D.C. and he's doing something about it, or more accurately, he won't be doing something he's done in the past.

At lunchtime on Tuesday, New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan were treated to an unusual sight — a small plane buzzing by the Standard and Poor’s building, towing a banner that read, “Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired.” Commissioned by St. Louis banker and single mother Lucy Nobbe, who paid $895 to hire the pilot, the fly-by was a reaction to the US losing its longtime AAA credit rating

We love our televisions don't we? With my current satellite subscription I get over 250 channels of "entertainment". But when the economy is in the toilet, Americans start cutting certain luxuries to save money.