Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government. If you're a first-time homebuyer, get up to $8,000. ...more

November 5, 2009

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Insulated from the harshest effects of the housing bust - and buoyed by an abundance of energy and agriculture - five contiguous rural states have the lowest unemployment rates in the land. ...more

January 11, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - A seven-member group of investors has agreed to buy the remnants of failed lender IndyMac Bank, a symbol of the U.S. housing boom and bust, for $13.9 billion, federal regulators said Friday. ...more

January 4, 2009

The enduring symbols of Wall Street's fabled, turbulent history are inescapable on this walk through the epicenter of American capitalism. ...more

November 9, 2008

Amid economic turmoil and a fast-approaching date with Election Day, some 500 members representing organized labor in Florida will fan out through Lakeland on Saturday. Their goal: Flip a traditional Republican hotbed on the pivotal Interstate 4 corridor by invading neighborhoods with odes of praise to the most pro-union major party presidential candidate in 40 years. ...more

October 17, 2008

With each announced departure of a high-profile Florida university professor for Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio, and so on, we can see the longstanding plans for a high-technology Interstate 4 corridor disintegrate at our feet. ...more

July 13, 2008

Ernest Lane of Trinity says Charley Reese overstates extent of nation's economic problems. ...more

January 29, 2008

Ernest Lane of Trinity says Charley Reese exaggerating problems of the nation's economy. ...more

January 8, 2008

An Associated Press analysis of new census data provides insight into the reasons for the slumping housing market: Since 1990, homeowners have faced a growing gap between their incomes and the price of their homes. ...more

September 12, 2007