Friday's labor report is the latest confirmation that our economy is sputtering, and a deeper look at the little-known civilian employment-population ratio, presents what may be a more revealing and troublesome picture.

The subprime superfund will inappropriately reward financial players who undervalued risk and got burned.

What happens to global financial markets when liquidity dries up?

Two useful reminders: growth does not simply continue uninterrupted along a smooth upward path, and inflation will not always remain quiescent.

Nothing has really changed yet with the American underclass; that is the thesis to which much of this article is devoted.