It took one vending machine and five panes of glass to get just the right smash for the much-talked-about amateur Doritos commercial seen during Super Bowl XLIII. ...more

February 3, 2009

The Super Bowl is on track to remain one big, glitzy bash even in these tough economic times. ...more

January 18, 2009

Months before a financial implosion shook shoppers straight to their checkbooks, Saks executives realized a problem might be brewing with their holiday lineup. ...more

October 18, 2008

When Deb Freitag applied for a credit card so she could replace her roof, her leaky refrigerator and her old dishwasher, she was offered a $1,000 line of credit, not the $5,000 she needed. ...more

September 27, 2008

Market forces are great. Until they're not. After nearly three decades of conservatives insisting that government has no business meddling in the private sector, the Bush administration on Friday announced a sweeping plan to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars bailing out financial institutions that bet wrong on the mortgage market. ...more

September 23, 2008

Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted Saturday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and other analysts said the package of programs for cash-strapped homeowners and shaken mortgage lenders is unlikely to relieve the foreclosure crisis that is driving the nation toward recession. ...more

July 27, 2008

Pop star Justin Timberlake will take pratfalls for Pepsi. Fitness nut Richard Simmons will work up a sweat for Bridgestone tires. And Anheuser-Busch will tell viewers that drinking Bud Light gives you special powers such as X-ray vision and the ability to breathe fire. ...more

February 1, 2008

TAMPA - Pop star Justin Timberlake will take pratfalls for Pepsi. Fitness nut Richard Simmons will work up a sweat for Bridgestone tires. And Anheuser-Busch will tell viewers that drinking Bud Light gives you special powers such as X-ray vision and the ability to breathe fire. These are just some of the wild and wacky advertisements coming up tonight during Super Bowl XLII on Fox. ...more

February 1, 2008