Child-safety activists charge that age-verification firms want to help Internet companies tailor ads for children.

The good news: The stocks of home builders were soaring. From Oct. 27 to Nov. 4, the sector shot up 26 percent. Value investors were circling, sniffing a possible bottom for the industry.

The elusive market bottom may be finally in sight. But don?t count on being able to time the market.

With their credit cards drained, the latest bankruptcy filers are deeper in debt than those in previous downturns.

Belt-tightening has prompted a reconsideration of acceptable consumerism, even among the well-off.

A study finds raging male hormones pumping up the bull-bear cycle.

The idea that job discrimination will be eliminated by competition is not consistent with experiments suggesting that such bias in labor markets remains widespread.

Product promotion made some average Joes overnight celebrities.

Programs to cushion and counter economic downturns have been sharply curtailed since 1981-82 recession.

Learn some job-loss warning signs from an expert in layoffs.

There are many smart ideas floating around about how to solve the twin problems posed by securitizations and resetting mortgages.

Cecil Bello has stumbled into a new corner of the credit squeeze. The 32-year-old management consultant has had the limits reduced on three of her credit cards.

It's hard to find an investment you can trust these days. Not blue chips. Those investors are looking pretty blue themselves. Steady money-market funds haven't been all that steady. And once high-flying hedge funds -- never for the faint of heart anyway -- are crashing to earth.

When a company lays off 50 or more workers, the government considers this to be an ?event,? almost as if it were a wedding or a concert.

Young people are making the lateral network ? their circle of friends and friends of those friends ? the first stop on their job search.

For most of his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama's economic message was a call to restore balance to an off-kilter system, with investments in health care and education and reforms to the tax code and labor laws.

Swiss banking giant UBS, under investigation by the U.S. government for allegedly helping Americans hide money from the Internal Revenue Service, is closing thousands of accounts, putting clients at greater risk of being exposed, tax lawyers say.

Reuters - The White House on Saturday said it was not proposing relaxing fuel efficiency requirements as part of efforts to speed up government loans to the ailing auto industry.

How much you spend on basic items depends a lot on where you live.

An economic downturn may seem like a bad time to sell your own house. But believers in for-sale-by-owner, or FSBO (pronounced FIZZ-bo, for the uninitiated), say saving the broker?s fee is worth the effort.