Economic uncertainty often forces a shift in how we spend and save. During the Great Recession of the late 2000s — when unemployment hit 10% and home values dropped by 30% — many tightened their ...

What can today’s young professionals learn from one of the toughest economic moments in modern history? The answers might ...

The economy has improved significantly since 2008, but Steve Wellington says he’s still not ready to make just any real estate deal. Wellington, founder and president of St. Paul-based Wellington ...

The Great Recession has affected freight transportation in many ways but most of all it has provided a lesson in survival. "We did what most businesses did in order to survive - things that in our ...

As states across America brace for economic turbulence, it’s tempting to look back to the Great Recession, when states also faced significant revenue shortfalls, for a playbook: cut budgets first, ...

Already having been hit hard in recent years due to changing shopper preferences, the apparel industry ―particularly department stores and specialty apparel retailers―are now facing the fallout from ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For some small business owners, the Great Recession turned out to be a lesson in how to run their companies better. Many owners whose businesses failed during the recession have taken ...

The recession has provided a moment to step back and contemplate, to come to a truer understanding of life lessons like that happiness is not derived from material things. The financial downturn has ...

This happened before. It will happen again. Charlie Cook, chairman of Nashville Bank & Trust, said that recessions come and go. It's not the first time that overexuberance has caused the economy to go ...

With the majority of major media owners and agency groups reporting revenue and profit growth for the first half of 2010, is it appropriate to declare the industry ‘out of recession’? The turnaround ...