Consumers are still buying everything at a healthy pace, but the declining value of the dollar is worrisome because if foretells higher prices for imports. ...more

September 25, 2007

China has begun releasing pigs from its central reserves into the domestic market to counter surging pork prices that have helped lift inflation to 11-year highs, according to a media report. ...more

September 22, 2007

Commuters in the Tampa Bay area spend the equivalent of a full week of work stuck in traffic on their way to and from their jobs each year, a new study says. ...more

September 19, 2007

Four years ago the Bush administration, exploiting the political bounce it got from the illusion of success in Iraq, pushed a cut in capital-gains and dividend taxes through Congress. It was an extremely elitist tax cut even by Bush-era standards: The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that more than half of the tax breaks went to Americans with incomes of more than $1 million a year. ...more

September 12, 2007

Health insurance premiums paid by workers and their employers rose an average of 6.1 percent this year, outpacing inflation and pay increases and taking a bigger chunk out of families' budgets, according to a new survey. ...more

September 12, 2007