Tom Beckwith knows the usual rap about offshore outsourcing. It costs American jobs, critics say, while it underpays foreign workers. ...more

December 11, 2007

Florida and California helped drive the national foreclosure rate to an all-time high in the third quarter, fresh evidence of the problems afflicting distressed homeowners amid the housing meltdown. ...more

December 7, 2007

For the second month in a row, Florida's foreclosure rate ranked third highest in the nation, the latest sign many homeowners are falling behind on mortgage payments and increasingly losing their homes, according to California-based research company RealtyTrac. ...more

November 30, 2007

Anyone who follows the media has probably heard many times that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and incomes of the population in general are stagnating. Moreover, those who say such things can produce many statistics, including data from the Census Bureau, which seem to indicate that. ...more

November 23, 2007

The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them. ...more

October 31, 2007

Waterfront residents willing to tax themselves to pay for canal dredging will have their plan presented to the city council at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. ...more

October 24, 2007

Foreclosure filings across the United States nearly doubled last month compared with September 2006, as financially strapped homeowners behind on mortgage payments defaulted on their loans or came closer to losing their homes to foreclosure, a real estate information company said Thursday. ...more

October 12, 2007

Florida's foreclosure activity jumped 77 percent in August, compared with July, boosting its foreclosure rate to the third highest among all states. It was even worse in Tampa Bay, where foreclosure filings more than doubled. Both are further signs that homeowners are having trouble paying their mortgages and selling their homes amid a national housing slump. ...more

September 19, 2007