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Along with the usual punchlines, cartoonish violence and car chases, the real world of a depressed economy slipped into the showcase of Super Bowl commercials. In a Bud Light commercial, employees sat around a conference table while their exasperated boss...

In an FT interview, China's premier said Beijing was considering fresh measures to boost its economy and rejected as 'ridiculous' suggestions that the huge pool of Chinese savings is partly to blame for the global crisis

Wall Street is bracing for yet more reminders this week that the economy is in rotten shape. Companies from networking-gear maker Cisco Systems Inc. to media giant Time Warner Inc. are set to report quarterly results, while a steady stream of economic readings is also due.

Janet wrote: This bill is an outrage! We do not need more government jobs. The government has created the present problem with Freddie and Fannie! The pork in this bill stinks. Why should ACORN get money?????????? This government is dreadfully out of touch with the people who work in this great land. The debt we would incur is idiocy. Lower taxes and support small business. Get out of the health care business before you ruin it, too. The same is true of the auto industry. We have been the leader in the world's economy because capitalism works! Socialism fails, as is proof of Europe.I pray you senators will not vote for this ruinous stimulus bill. America has ALREADY failed, thanks to your far right lunatics you picked to run the country for most of the last 28 years.Both Bush and Reagan more than doubled US DEBT. And it was YOUR PARTY that has been in control of Freddie and Fannie for most of the last 28 years.Amazing how rightwingers manage to blame Obama,

Britain's Brown warned that the global economy is slipping into a dangerous form of financial protectionism. (Interview transcript)

The owner of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is suffering as the credit crunch and unprecedented interest-rate environment crimps trading by banks and hedge funds.

Australia&os;s free trade agreements should take a back seat to help local industry survive the global economic crisis, the Australian Workers Union (AWU) says. On the eve of federal parliament sitting for the first time in 2009, AWU national secretary ...

100-150 NRKs are returning from the Gulf sector every week.

Dems predict more than 3/4 of the $888B package can flow into the economy in the first 18 to 19 months.

Job losses continued last month in nine Midwest and Plains states, and a new survey of business leaders released Monday suggests the region's economy will remain weak in the months ahead.