Economic doom and gloom notwithstanding, how happy are peo...  ...John C. Farrier): DESPITE global economic gloom, the world is a happier place than...  ...lace than it was before the financial crisis began. That is the counterintuiti...

Image: Robert Burns/LA Times...  ...could the key to solving the US housing crisis be letting foreigners buy real estate for visas?...

If he were alive, economist and...  ...probably say "I told you so" about the economic crises that plagued both the United Sta...  ...used by particular forms of social or economic organisation, but by their size. Socialism,...

Confused by the European Sovereign...  ...Confused by the European Sovereign Debt Crisis ? Michael Cembalest, the Chief Investmen...  ...his son Peter (age 9) to illustrate the crisis ... with LEGO minifigs! Surely you can se...

What do we need to do to grow the US economy again? Fire the MBAs, and let engineers run the show.That's what Bob Lutz, the former Vice Chairman of General Motors, suggested. He noted that American companies started to l...

Could your friendly neighborhood Blockbuster be a relic of the past? Yes, according to Douglas A. McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. In fact, Blockbuster is just one of 10 national brands that may disappear as soon as next year:B...

When you're going to squat, why not do it in style? That's what some squatters just did in Seattle:The 8,000-square-foot mansion was dark and in foreclosure for years. So last weekend when the for-sale signs came down an...

Psst! Want to live in your house without paying a...  ...ying a dime in mortgage? Thanks to the US housing crisis , now you can - at least for a year or two. More...  ...adowed by a conviction that the banks created the crisis by snookering homeowners with loans that got them...

Here's a rather unexpected result of mass layoffs...  ...h the larger population perceives a threat to its economic security.”Such threats are bad news to smal...

After the one of the largest economic meltdowns of the century, thousands of people fro...