It all started because we didn't want to eat dinner for a second night at the Oberoi resort in Lombok, Indonesia. Admittedly, it was a stunning setting, overlooking the Bali Sea, but a tad formal. ...more

January 4, 2009

We are the United States of Stuff Buyers. Seventy percent of our gross domestic product is tied to consumption. But these days, many of us are also short on cash, either literally or psychologically. ...more

December 14, 2008

Lakeshore Mall has teamed up with American Express to offer shoppers a free gas card worth $15 with the purchase of three CBL Malls gift cards by American Express. The mall gift cards can be used at any store at Lakeshore Mall, which accepts the American Express card. ...more

December 14, 2008

Federal auditors have concluded the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 campaign owes the government nearly $500,000 for illegal donations and other financial improprieties. Sharpton has been feuding with the Federal Election Commission for years over his accounting in his failed run for president, for which he received $100,000 in so-called government matching funds that authorities later concluded he did not deserve because he hadn't followed campaign laws. ...more

November 16, 2008

The easy money that led Americans to depend on credit cards to pay their bills is starting to dry up. ...more

June 21, 2008

Luciano Pavarotti, 71, who died early Thursday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Modena, Italy, combined a lustrous lyric tenor voice with a radiant and expansive personal charm to win the largest and most diversified audience ever accorded an opera singer. ...more

September 7, 2007