January’s Jobs Report: What It Means for You

While unemployment is shrinking, jobs still aren’t being created at a pace that will really help the economy. How does that situation affect your situation? Here’s some insight — and advice — that can help you through until t…

When Banks Outsource Foreclosures, Nothing Good Happens

A Louisiana bankruptcy case involving a single foreclosure best illustrates the problems with the banks’ outsourcing their mortgage default work to firms like LPS. The result of this money-saving maneuver by banks winds up cost…

What U.S. Energy Policy Needs: Less Coal, More Uranium

With cleaner air and energy self-sufficiency high on America’s list of priorities, our irrational dislike of nuclear power looks increasingly imprudent. China, France and the U.K. have raced ahead safely on nuclear power: It’s …

Hosni Mubarak’s Economic Achievements

While much of the attention has focused on Mubarak’s dictatorship, most Americans don’t realize that — before the recent political turmoil — he’d actually been winning international kudos for his handling of the economy.
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