Nothing is more frustrating for financially-strapped homeowners than calling their lenders and not getting through to the right person. ...more

March 27, 2009

When New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a commencement address at Oglethorpe University in May 1932, the economic crisis that had befallen the United States three years earlier had already morphed into the Great Depression: One in four Americans was out of work, banks were failing at a rate of 10 per week and the gross national product was at half its pre-crash level. ...more

December 27, 2008

The egalitarian wage system former President Fidel Castro spent decades building in Cuba is no longer viable, plagued by low pay, corruption and waste that can be eased by paying workers more for better work, a top labor official said in an interview published Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008