The rationale last year for loaning public money to General Motors and Chrysler was that if they crashed, the entire economy would be damaged. ...more

April 1, 2009

Recently a major metropolitan newspaper asked its readers how they would "fix" the American economy. Responses ran the gamut from serious to silly and everything in between. In one of the more intriguing suggestions, a reader wrote: ...more

March 29, 2009

"It's been a tough year." Stanley Wells doesn't mind admitting it. In previous years, he was selling 65 Dodges and Chryslers a month. In 2008, he's averaging maybe 40. ...more

December 14, 2008

As if earthquake worries, polluted air and an algae-filled sea weren't enough, the Beijing Olympic organizers may have a Biblical-level challenge on their hands - a plague of locusts buzzing down from Inner Mongolia, where they already have chewed up about 5,000 square miles. ...more

July 10, 2008

Dallas Dunlap's letter to the editor in the June 1 edition of Hernando Today gave us a lesson in "Supply-Side Whackonomics" and its impact on the price of gas. The hairs on the back of my neck are still vibrating! ...more

June 7, 2008

Toyota Motor Corp. overtook Ford Motor Co. to become the No. 2 automaker by U.S. sales in 2007, using new products and relentless strategy to break Ford's 75-year lock on the position. ...more

January 4, 2008