Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for chronicling the rich in The Great Gatsby, supposedly said to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different than you and me.”To which Hemingway rep

Economist Brad DeLong, of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. He says the chance of Great Depression now is at 5%:  For 2 1/4 years now I have been

There’s an old joke in Silicon Valley about Oracle (ORCL) founder and CEO Larry Ellison:Q: What’s the difference between God and Larry Ellison?A: God doesn’t think he’s Larry

The United States economy might not be doing so well, but local economies are fighting back.To combat outsourcing of goods and services, and to keep revenue within the community, many areas have inst

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Gourmands, harried fiancées, and dentist office waiting rooms were struck a blow on Monday when publishing giant Condé Nast announced the closure of four of its popular magazines after

Any old-time newspaper editor will tell you that local news is important to local readers.Therefore, a dog fight on Main Street is more important to Mr. and Mrs. Jones than a drought in Timbuktu that

Stop the presses! There’s a new reporter in town, and he might just be your neighbor. The New Jersey Press Association’s decision to issue press credentials last week to reporters at a hy

Cable news networks have always ripped the headlines from newspapers to fill out their morning programs. Now one of them is hoping the information will flow in the opposite direction. CNN announced t

Some citizens in Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New York, and Arizona ask a basic question as the economy continues to falter: Why should Uncle Sam print all the money?Governments typically cr