A new survey by the Centre for Retail Research revealed that shopping shoplifting has increased at an astonishing rate:They found that shoplifting in Britain has increased in the past year by nearly 20 per cent to almost...

If you're feeling a tad poor because of the economic meltdown, tell yourself that at least you're not...

Out of a job? If you live in the Great State of California, you're in good company: two out of five working-age Californians do not have a job! “The current recession stands apart from prior downturns for both the...

Across many cities in the United States, hundreds of thousands of foreclosed and abandoned homes turned some neighborhoods into urban blight ... but nowhere is the effect as acutely felt as in Detroit.Sweet Juniper blog...

Predicting the economy is a lot like reading tea l...  ...Harvard."Still, the economists at the ECRI ( Economic Cycles Research Institute) are darn smart and hav...

Image: New York Times analysis of Congressional Budget Office dataImagine you're the world's biggest shopaholic - say, you spend $1,000 a second. Who'd spend more in a decade: you or the government? If you do the math, y...

Being out of a job usually ranks in the top 3 nigh...  ...kruptcy, others have found a silver lining in the economic meltdown. These happily jobless tend to be single...

Digital Inspiration features a map illustrating th...  ...fy which countries they believe are surviving the crisis

The funeral industry is usually recession proof. A...  ...die." So it goes to show how bad the current economic situation has become: a cemetery on Highway 86 in...

The real estate market may be bad everywhere, but it is particularly bad in Victorville, California, where the real estate crash has turned quite literal. There, failed developments are being torn down because the cost o...