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President Barack Obama Saturday endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit, though the idea has lots of opposition from both his allies and rivals on Capitol Hill.
While many hailed U.S. President Barack Obama’s attention to the high unemployment rate in the country, some experts argued that the jobs bill he had proposed lacks the strength needed to spark significant employment growth.
Mexico’s foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro for three hours Friday, the latest sign her country and the island have repaired recently chilly relations.
Until yesterday your choices for depositing safe money around the globe were basically Ireland, Germany or the Mafia.
DENBIGH’S unique 1950s museum has suffered extensive damage after a fire broke out on Tuesday night in a suspected arson attack that has devastated the collection of 50s vehicles.
Johan Franzen doesn’t shy away from anything on the ice, but off it can be a very different story.
Big banks are roaring back. At crisis’ edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them.
The housing industry has been the epicenter of the great national recession. No sector of the economy has been hit harder by the near collapse of the nationa s financial system and the implosion of sub-prime mortgages.
For American manufacturers, competing on price with companies that are exporting goods from a low-wage-paying country is nearly fruitless.
Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy. Justice Sandra Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washington.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. reported Thursday that it plans to buy electricity from several proposed solar facilities and natural gas power plants, one of which would replace two aging generators in Antioch.
Each week, The Chronicle tracks the latest investments, fundraising, mergers and initial public offerings involving Bay Area venture capitalists and startups.
The U.S. faces the possibility of deflation for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, a threat that may prompt the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates near zero through next year.
St. Petersburg, Florida - The price of high speed internet can cost you hundreds, even thousands of dollars every year.
The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.
Stocks began the fourth quarter with their worst drop in three months after reports on the job market and manufacturing reawakened investors’ pessimism about the economy.
Banks reduced their borrowing from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending facility over the past week, and cut back on their use of other programs designed to ease the financial crisis.
Asian markets fell sharply Friday as weaker-than-expected reports about U.S. jobs and manufacturing heightened worries about an anemic recovery in the world’s largest economy.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon schools and governments are confronting a big increase in pension costs because of last year’s meltdown in the financial markets.
The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday.
The Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 and its amendments in 1997 eased some of the stock restrictions surrounding S corporations.
Heated rhetoric surrounding health insurance reform is frequently infused with inaccurate data and half-truths spun to serve various perspectives on issues.
Earlier this year, new olim Leah Goldman and her husband were awaiting the birth of their first child to be born in Jerusalem.
A true fan of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is paying $63,500 to have dinner with her.
Feature InfoWorld Home / News / Platforms / Internet / Report: FCC will formalize net neutrality rule Report: FCC will formalize net neutrality rule The agency’s chairman will propose new rules in a speech Monday, a news report says By Grant Gross The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is planning to create formal rules against Internet …
Microsoft Corp. says it raised CEO Steve Ballmer’s salary by 4 percent at the start of fiscal 2009, a year in which the software maker’s profit plunged 17 percent on weak personal computer sales.
As his partners bustled around the Grand Strand Chamber of Commerce office preparing for Tuesday morning’s ribbon-cutting, it was hard to tell if founder Ward Shepherd was excited, nervous or just his usual self.
Congress wants to subject us to massive tax increases and a health care nightmare with its socialized medicine scheme.
