Under the gloom of plunging motor-home sales and with travel trailers stacking up on lots, recreational vehicle makers and dealers tried to lift their spirits by joining in song at their national trade show this week. ...more

December 6, 2008

Hit with an awful consumer spending market, home shopping channel HSN is paring back operations. ...more

December 5, 2008

Officials: Project is viable, despite bankruptcy filing. ...more

December 2, 2008

Hernando Oaks, one of the larger subdivisions in Hernando County, received another economic hit last week when one of the development entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in federal court. ...more

December 2, 2008

The reality that the nation is indeed in recession and that the downturn may well be prolonged sent Wall Street plunging Monday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 700 points and wiping out more than half of last week's big gains. ...more

December 2, 2008

President Bush expressed remorse that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and harmed retirement accounts and said he'll back more government intervention if needed to ease the recession. ...more

December 1, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research says the U.S. economy fell into a recession last year. The NBER says its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began in December 2007. Many economists believe the current downturn will last until the middle of 2009 and will be the most severe slump since the 1981-82 recession. ...more

December 1, 2008

By mid-December, Hillsborough County school leaders will have to cut from their budget $26 million that they already planned to lose. ...more

November 25, 2008

Bad economic news flooded in from all directions Friday, as state economists predicted tax collections would come up short by $1.4 billion and new figures showed that unemployment had soared to 7 percent. ...more

November 22, 2008

Now the big three tells us they need an infusion of cash to the tune of about $25 billion. ...more

November 22, 2008