For Citibank credit card holders, there is one way to escape the bank's rate hikes currently under way: Meet a monthly spending requirement. Those who meet the spending minimum -- in some c

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

1. The Debt Crisis is SimpleAwash as we are in a sea of Federal Reserve- and Treasury Department-sponsored financial acronyms, it would be easy to assume the complexity of the debt crisis is beyond t

I’d like to discuss human nature and the paper we call money from a slightly different perspective. I was recently thinking about what's transpired in this country in the last decade: First the

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

Saving the dinosaur press is apparently a bipartisan effort -- and blather from both sides of the aisle doesn’t give a bad idea a patina of credibility. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republ

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

Newspaper executives hope that keeping it local will keep them in business. “What newspapers do best is deliver the local perspective,” Susie Ellwood, chief executive officer of the Detro

President Obama, a self-proclaimed “newspaper junkie” says he’d be “happy to look at” a bill pending in Congress that would give newspapers tax breaks if they restructur

Here’s just what banks don’t need after the housing crunch: a stake in struggling media companies. But it may work out that way, thanks to bankruptcies. When media companies can no longer