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After falling for three straight months, unemployment rates rose in most U.S. metropolitan areas in June. Is this growing joblessness more evidence of a double-dip recession?

By nature we are curious creatures and when it comes to money that curiosity increases, especially when it's how much other people are spending. That's the first thing that will attract you to Bundle.com, but it's what you find after this that makes Bundle a useful tool that you'll come back to...

While regulators wrestle with how to curb banking bonuses, no one seems to have noticed that women working at London's top 50 banks and finance companies in the City are receiving bonuses worth an average of 80 percent less than their male counterparts. That means men take home about five times...

In Portland, Oregon, jaywalking has long been a topic of public discourse. One former mayor and police chief was famously quoted as saying that jaywalking was the first step in a slippery slope ending at the water park of anarchy (note: I've embellished his sentiment but he did say it). But in the...

The local newspaper recently published a list of delinquent tax properties for our county, which painted a telling portrait of the local economy. The list, which takes up two thirds of a page and includes over 600 properties, wasn't just made up of individuals threatened with losing their homes;...

Earlier this year, my wife and I moved from the wilds of Southwest Virginia to New York City. Our greatest fear wasn't crime, filth, or the possibility that our daughter would grow up with a New York accent. Rather, we were worried that everything was going to cost a fortune and that we would end...