I am responding to your editorial from Nov. 7, "Unions Seek New Clout With Strong-Arm Tactics". ...more

November 21, 2008

Up to 60 percent of homes selling in Florida's hardest-hit markets are distressed properties, and consumers who bought at the height of the market will have to wait up to seven years before values rise to their original prices, a top industry economist said Friday. ...more

November 8, 2008

The economy won't heal until the housing market improves, and that's going to take government intervention. ...more

November 7, 2008

The University of South Florida has begun to "judiciously" draw from its reserves as it tries to dampen the effects of a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, the university's provost said Friday. ...more

August 23, 2008

Stores, factories and businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate in four years and adding to the evidence an economic recovery remains far off. ...more

August 2, 2008

The prospects for a quick economic recovery dimmed Thursday, with new data showing the economy grew at a slower-than-expected rate this spring despite some oomph from tax rebate checks - and actually shrank late last year. ...more

August 1, 2008

Mobs of fans greeted the opening this week of build-it-yourself furniture chain Ikea's first store in New York City - but the fervor is masking shoppers' underlying frugality. ...more

June 20, 2008

More Americans are in line to get rebates if a revised plan continues its quick move through the Senate. ...more

January 31, 2008

A plan to send $500 to $1,000 rebates to all but the richest taxpayers advanced in the Senate on Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats teamed to add aid for disabled veterans, the elderly and the unemployed to a House-passed economic recovery bill. ...more

January 31, 2008