The Labor Department reported Friday morning that the unemployment rate rose to 10.2% for October on job losses of 191,000, giving the public and Washington new reasons to disagree over the Obama Administration's course

The value of the greenback has resumed its downward spiral, but don't count out the world's reserve currency yet

Do you or your kids play FarmVille, Mafia Wars or Restaurant City? Then you may well have some unpleasant surprises on your cell-phone bill

In this economy, retailers are reluctant to invest in new locations. But with rents cheap, they're opening short-term stores for the holidays. Inside a retail phenomenon

Germany was hit with a one-two punch this week -- first, GM pulled out of a deal to sell Opel and Vauxhall, then it announced 10,000 job cuts in Europe. Can Berlin do anything now to protect its interests?

Many companies are emerging from two years of losses, which means their pockets are stuffed with valuable tax credits

Former Esquire editor-in-chief Lee Eisenberg examines why American consumers buy things and why, despite the recession, we will probably never stop

Though critics contend that the home buyers' tax credit is wasteful, Congress is poised to hand the real estate industry an $11 billion lift

TIME interviews Rick Sharga of RealtyTrak, a leading expert on America's home-foreclosure crisis

Shanghai Disneyland, Disney's second theme park in China, could boost the company's brand in a key market -- but will the existing Hong Kong Disneyland suffer?

Johan de Nysschen, head of Audi's U.S. division, on why he believes that clean-diesel technology will revolutionize the auto industry

Hampered by a slim lineup of new models and poor reviews on many of its existing models, Chrysler eyes a better future

New book The Curse of the Mogul excoriates the leaders of America's big media companies for shortsighted, self-indulgent grandiosity. And that's just for starters

Former Bear Stearns executive Steven Begleiter aims to make a cool $7.2 million with his poker skills, but one poker pro calls him "a loose cannon"

The bill, which also extends unemployment benefits and expands a tax break for money-losing businesses, now goes to President Barack Obama, who plans to sign it Friday

She is the star of the Obama Cabinet and an international celebrity -- and after nine months of staying out of the limelight, Hillary Clinton has arrived on the global stage. An intimate portrait of the diplomat and her world

The second-ranking House Democrat predicted that historic health care legislation will be passed Saturday as the AARP signed on to the bill

Conservatives get the most attention as the GOP revives. But moderates in the Republican Party are rising too

The GOP gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia may not have been a referendum on Obama, but they did show that the President's popularity cannot so easily be transferred

Maine's vote against gay marriage, much like all of the states before it, including California's Prop 8 a year ago, will do little to slow the fight over it