Lost Decade

    By Ann Brenoff

    | 9:00AM 8/17/2010
    What with the continued malaise over bloated unemployment figures, the slumping housing market, the Great Recession's incessant hangover and consumers avoiding retail therapy like the plague, one can't help but pose the million-dollar question (even if its value has plummeted to $76): Has America...

    By Aaron Crowe

    | 2:00PM 2/23/2009
    Are the lessons from Japan's "Lost Decade" in store for Americans n the coming years, as we experience the fallout from the current ugly recession? If they are, things will be bleak indeed, as Japanese consumers exacerbated deflation, saved money in every way they could such as reusing old bath...