Personal Economics
  • Rising Gas Prices Deliver Another Blow to Consumers

    Will the average family have anything left to spend on extras? For many, the return of the 2 percent payroll tax was enough of a setback. Now, with gas topping $4 a gallon in some areas, consumers...

  • Financial Decline Ahead for Most Retirees

    By Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post

    For the first time since the New Deal, a majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents, jeopardizing a long era of improved...

  • Are Booming Charter Schools Cherry-Picking Top Students?

    By Stephanie Simon, Reuters

    Charters are public schools, funded by taxpayers and widely promoted as open to all. But Reuters has found that across the United States, charters aggressively screen student applicants, assessing...

  • Leaked Wal-Mart Email Drags Down Retail Stocks

    By Jee Yeon Park, CNBC

    Wal-Mart shares fell Friday, dragging on the retailer sector, after an internal company email, in which an executive said February sales were a "total disaster" so far, leaked out.

  • U.S. appeals court finds Astra's Seroquel XR patent infringed

    By Terry Baynes, Reuters

    (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that found the formulation patent for AstraZeneca's anti-psychotic drug Seroquel XR was valid and had been infringed by Mylan...