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San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem. At 3 cents a page, his tests would cost more than $500 a year. His copying budget: $316.

Anti-government and bank rage reached a boiling point Monday in the small island nation of Iceland, where residents have seen unemployment and inflation skyrocket following the fall collapse of the Icelandic banking system. Iceland, a nation recently

As we all know, the powers-that-be at the Federal Reserve, in the federal government, and on Wall Street are trying their best to make sure that prices do not come down. But, wouldn’t this be an ideal time for food prices to come down, so that people...

Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally says he'll work for $1 per year if the automaker has to take any government loan money.

The last Democratic president left us with a budget surplus (though there was still a substantial debt). Will Obama’s administration similarly engage in fiscal conservatism?

It is natural, in an age of bailouts and government intervention, to denounce the actions being taken “for our own good” by the President and Congress, and write at length about what we shouldn’t be doing. It is my view that people look entirely too

Suspension bridges make cities work, as evidenced by the earliest structures built in China over 2,000 years ago to speed up the pace of life and commerce across the water.

The European Central Bank cut interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point, the biggest reduction in its 10-year history, as the economic slump deepened and inflation waned.

The nation's retailers got a much-needed sales boost during Black Friday's traditional shopathon as consumers spent more money than they did last year.

A Miami activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.