The Christmas shopping season often can put a colorful coating on an otherwise rotten economy. ...more

January 24, 2009

Drill Now Fox News recently had a guest on from an oil drilling company who gave his estimate of the amounts and locations of oil readily available in the U.S. Not only could we start getting oil from these sources within a short period of time, (he said less than a year from nearby shore lines; three to six years from those farther away) but it would start freeing us from our dependence on foreign oil. ...more

July 15, 2008

Experts say this cringe-inducing idea is a reality Tampa may have to face as economic activity, hammered by the housing crash, gets perilously slow. ...more

January 7, 2008

Wary employers clamped down on hiring and pushed the unemployment rate to a two-year high of 5 percent in December, an ominous sign the economy may slide into recession. President Bush explored a rescue package, including a tax cut, with his economic advisers. ...more

January 4, 2008

Employers added twice as many new jobs to their ranks than expected in October, an encouraging sign that the nation's employment climate is not cracking under the stress of a deepening housing slump. ...more

November 2, 2007