Finesse Crafted Floors LLP is optimistic looking forward despite a sluggish housing market. With the unemployment rate at 8.3 percent, the lowest point since February 2009, the company is expecting spring bookings for refinishing and installation of ...
After a week of non-stop Osama Bin Laden, Washington is now returning to the battle over the budget deficit and the debt ceiling. All over Capitol Hill Republicans and Democrats are debating spending caps and automatic triggers, and whether to begin them ...
WASHINGTON -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Sunday that Republican governors deserve credit for the improving economy. "I'm glad the economy is starting to recover, but I think it's because of what Republican governors are doing in their ...
President Obama's decision to reject construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will cost thousands of North American jobs and jeopardizes the future of shared economic prosperity between the world's two largest trading partners, according to ...
The trade deficit in the U.S. probably widened in December to a six-month high as imports climbed faster than exports, economists said a report this week will show. The gap grew to $48.5 billion from the $47.8 billion shortfall in November ...
"It’s the economy, stupid,” was a useful slogan for the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. Of course, it wasn’t really true. The Clinton campaign was about much more than the economy. It was about “ending welfare as we know it,” for example, and putting ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama sat down with NBC's Matt Lauer today in a brief interview aired before the Super Bowl. For the last three years the president has done exclusive game-day interviews with whichever network is airing the NFL ...
SANTA CRUZ - The city's long-delayed general plan update, a blueprint for how Santa Cruz officials will guide development, transportation and natural resource protection during the next generation, has returned to the fore. The City Council will ...
IS YOUR business up and coming, going from strength to strength, faltering or failing? Your Business editor Russell Emmerson looks at where you are and how to move on. IS YOUR BUSINESS UP AND COMING? A NEW business needs a proper financial, operational and ...
The U.S. economy shows signs of hope in early 2012 with fourth quarter 2011 GDP coming in at an impressive percentage growth rate. Current economic data points to confusing economic activity and is becoming difficult to predict which direction ...
