What Is Recession?

According to that harbinger of doom, The Economic Collapse, we’re in for a bumpy ride. With an economic outlook akin to Moses’ perception of another historically distant society’s future, the site is a financial wakeup call to the huddled masses of America and beyond. I have an acquaintance that always seems to look on the [...]

In the old days, before PC, when “Xmas” was only a polite four-letter word, writing about Christmas was a cinch. Even if you were a hopeless failure as a wordsmith, a beautiful, thoughtful, and meaningful card cost only a dime plus a three-cent stamp to express your feelings and to save money. Then Merry Christmas [...]

I visited Santa Rosa’s city hall on Thanksgiving Day because everything else was closed and there wasn’t much else to do. It was the only place that showed any life whatsoever, and whatever the economic outlook may be, folks have their routine. The whole city was the proverbial ghost town. The economic trends that have [...]

The European Central Bank (ECB) is stepping up to the plate to invest in the government bonds of its struggling financial allies like Italy. Except the problem, as some analysts see it, is that the ECB is merely bunting and not swinging for the fences. They just bought nearly euro8 billion worth of Italian government [...]

Is Mario Monti just another pretty face? Can he help Italy to ride out its economic downturn? Since the information age has rendered the world, once, in ages past, incomprehensibly vast, today a global village, we can no longer afford to let our neighbors eat cake. Yet, with many other treasuries in the deep red, [...]

The state of the economy, the accounting solutions of the Federal Reserve Bank and those controlling the financial engine of Wall Street came together with the California version of New York’s Occupy Wall Street, Occupy San Francisco. I had forgotten all about it but reminded first hand when on a recent walkabout in the city [...]

In these tough economic times, plenty of people are involved in their own economic meltdown. Layoffs, losing jobs, getting hours cut back all add up and the cost can be catastrophic. In addition to this, ID theft and credit card information theft is on the rise as a result. This is where credit card protection [...]