Granted an audience of world peers for a final time, President George W. Bush is trying to rally Pacific Rim support for an economic rescue plan that will outlast him.

From his "invisible university" at 201 W. King St., Chris Efthymiades delivered an impromptu economics lesson."People think that when the economy is bad, this business will be good," he said. "No! When people don't have money, they aren't spending.

Don Stebbins waved a dollar bill through the air Saturday morning. “How much is this worth?” he queried the four dozen or so high schoolers who perked up with interest. He offered to buy one student's empty water bottles for the buck. Stebbins then a

Billionaire short seller James Chanos has closed his positions in home builder stocks, thinking the worst is over for that sector. But he still sees trouble for the economy. "We are in a recession, there is not any doubt," he said in an interview follow

Sept. 10, 2008 (SmartPros) More than 75 percent of senior finance executives across the United States and Canada said they plan to focus on reducing risk in their defined benefit (DB) pension portfolios, rather than seek greater return on assets, accordin