Aug 12 Rural Post Offices on Shaky Ground More than 3,500 post offices are being evaluated for potential closure. Photo by AFP/Getty. If you blink, you might miss it. That's how the Postmaster in Parshall, Colo., Grant Burger, described his town recently. In fact, photographer Brian Gill… Continue reading
Aug 12 With the Wealthy Burbs Stalled, So Is the Economy The jobless rate in the nation's Monied Burb county types rose to 8.5 percent in June; Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr.com/shoa What's wrong with the U.S. economy? Ugliness abounds. The Dow is way down, then it is way up,… Continue reading
Aug 12 Wealth Quiz: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie? By Paul Solman Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of reports on U.S. economic inequality. Continue reading
Aug 12 Wealth: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie? continued Editor's Note | Aug. 17, 2011: The middle pie represents the income distribution of Sweden. For more, see 'Building a Better America--One Wealth Quintile at a Time' by Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton. The correct answer was 'Freedonia'… Continue reading
Aug 12 Wealth: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie? Photo by flickr user sciondriver. Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch Uncertainty, Computerized Trading Fuel Wall Street's Wild Ride American markets once again dramatically reversed course Thursday with the Dow Jones industrial average gaining more than 400 points. Judy Woodruff discusses what's behind the latest wild day for Wall Street with Catherine Mann of Brandeis University and Andrew Ross… Continue watching
Aug 11 Guide to the Super Committee The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- otherwise known as the "super committee" -- is charged with putting a plan forward to cut at least $1.5 trillion from the U.S. deficit. Republican and Democratic congressional leaders… Continue reading
Aug 11 How Bad Is the Current Stock Crash? Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Photo by Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Editor's Note: Given the rollercoaster behavior of the stock market over the past few weeks, we checked… Continue reading
Aug 11 How Bad Is the Current Stock Crash? Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Photo by Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Editor's Note: Given the rollercoaster behavior of the stock market over the past few weeks, we checked… Continue reading
Aug 11 European Stocks Dip Over French Bank Concerns By News Desk A rollercoaster week for the global stock market showed no signs of stabilizing on Thursday, as European stocks showed a downward trend on concerns over French banks and continued sovereign debt crises on the continent. The bad news from… Continue reading