There’s no question the American consumer is hurting in the face of a burst housing bubble, financial market meltdown and rising unemployment.

The Washington Post, quoting sources involved in the deliberations over the plan, reports that the Geithner team apparently pulled the plug on their initial strategy at the last minute.

Four Portland legislators joined a Springfield senator to introduce Oregon House Bill 2461, which would impose a $49.61 tax on each barrel of beer produced by Oregon brewers.

After selling a majority stake in Miami-based City National Bancshares last November, all he did was take $60 million of the proceeds — $60 million out of his own pocket.

As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan.

For the second time in two weeks, a small earthquake has rattled an area of central New Jersey.

Krugman added: “I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach – a feeling that America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years.”

Thursday morning, Chene Thompson handed Henrietta Hughes the keys to her home in Hendry County.

Scientists have unraveled the genetic code of the common cold — all 99 known strains of it, to be exact.

Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention.

Sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly halted a record six-month slide in January, an advance that may not be sustained as job losses climb.

People who have lost their homes, jobs or economic stability are turning to the Internet to broadcast their troubles and plead for help.

A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant.

The president of Peanut Corp. of America refused to testify or eat his products at a House hearing Wednesday on the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 600 people nationwide.

One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate.

President Barack Obama had it both ways Monday when he promoted his stimulus plan in Indiana. He bragged about getting Congress to produce a package with no pork, yet .

Rather than a federally funded bank, Gardner expects the plan to set up a system to buy and hold toxic assets.

You’ve come to our county and asked us to trust you, but those that you have appointed to your Cabinet are not trustworthy and can’t handle their own budget and taxes,” the woman said to boos.

Beaver Dam school officials placed a middle school teacher on administrative leave after discovering a photograph of the teacher with a gun on the teacher s Facebook page.

Federal law permits individuals, businesses and local governments to file for bankruptcy reorganization and sometimes debt forgiveness.

Flitting across your yard, butterflies seem friendly and harmless. But at least one type has learned to raise its young as parasites, tricking ants into feeding it and giving special treatment.

Just more Keynsianism in the works, health of banks getting worse despite injections, Why not just let them fail and prosecute their officers for fraud?

Members of Congress were quick to shame corporate executives for over-the-top extravagance during the economic crisis, flying private jets and taking luxury junkets.

Depending on how you define intelligent, a UK researcher estimates there are at least 361 such civilization in our corner of the universe, and perhaps as many as 38,000, the BBC reports.

So, some Scouts and parents have no choice but to sell in the office, which isn't always popular with coworkers, either because they don't want to be bothered at work.

The Auckland businesswoman now hopes to capitalise on the commercial day of romance with chocolates fortified with Tongkat Ali.

The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday its seasonally adjusted index of pending sales for preowned homes for December rose 6.3% to 87.7 from an upwardly revised November reading of 82.5.

When a car buyer still owes money on a vehicle he is trading in, the dealer promises to pay off the outstanding loan, then resells the vehicle.

The U.S. stock market has crashed more times than we'd like to admit. Historically, our economy has been brought to its knees by everything from greedy bankers to horse illnesses.