Great Depression

Chalk it up to the nation's lingering economic malaise: More Americans this year plan to sock some of their tax refund away in savings. If you're among them, here are a few smart ways to stash that cash.

Hello, Gen Y! I've got good news and bad news for you. The good news is we've dodged a double dip recession. The bad news is that you're going to be seeing high unemployment for a long time to come. Here's some advice ...

Historically, women's heel sizes reach new heights when the economy is down, and fall when it's prosperous. But come winter and spring, we'll be seeing more women in kitten heels and flats, despite the continuing economic doldrums.

The banking world works in a lot of ways like a sports league. You can be a star, but that barely matters if your team is in last place. But if you're lucky enough to be a premiere bankers, you could always go elsewhere if your team's fortunes faded. That fluidity in finance world may, however, be fading.

The New York Times has found some unemployed people to argue against an extension of jobless benefits: "In a recent survey of the unemployed by Rutgers University, more than one in four respondents was opposed to renewing the current extended unemployment benefits.

Many of the economic problems of Sept. 11, 2001, feel awfully familiar today: Recession, bursting bubbles, low consumer confidence, predatory lending. But of course, it's a whole new world now, so we asked economists what the most significant shifts of the past decade have been.

Despite rosy financial forecasts made by economists this spring, our fears that the nation is about to sink into another depression are reaching depressing extremes. A new CNN poll reveals that nearly half of Americans believe a 1930s-scale depression is possible within the next 12 months.

Republican Ron Paul is going to have a great time making the Federal Reserve miserable once he takes over as chair of the House subcommittee that overseas it. But he's off-target in at least seven points of criticism he levels at Bernanke & Co.

About 151,000 jobs were created in October, and 95,000 the month before. If you got one of them, good for you. And if you didn't, well, you're in good company. How many jobs will it take for the recession to go away? According to the Brookings Institution, a whole lot more than those two numbers....

As the unemployment rate remains sky high, it's not hard to see why the issue of overseas has become a hot topic on both sides of the aisle. But overseas outsourcing keeps growing worse, not better, with some business consultants predicting that a huge increase is on the way.