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They call this industry cyclical for a reason. Someday, supply and demand will balance, rates will jump as they have in the past, and crews will dress in Prada. But it's going to take a fear years. Meantime, let's take a look at which companies are well-positioned to ride out the rocky seas of the moment.

DailyFinance contributor Alex Salkever's most recent absurd tale of plastic woe has convinced him that reform or not, it's unlikely that card companies are going to change anytime soon.

Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions If you've read this week's Tuition Ignition series closely, you may have wondered why we didn't include community colleges or for-profit private institutions, such as University of...

I'm a big fan of John Mauldin and his weekly email newsletter, Thoughts from the Frontline, where he analyzes the economy.But even so, I disagree strenuously with his reasons for being a pessimist on the economy, after the recent GDP report.

When I walk down the pet aisle in K-mart, I see lots of reasonably priced dog foods -- but none I would actually feed my dog. When I was younger and poorer and had never heard of melanine, K-mart seemed fine. But then I was terrified -- along with just about every other dog owner -- by the pet food...