Is This the End of the Line for Saab?

Faced with the sudden collapse of its plan to sell Saab to Sweden's Koenigsegg Group AB, a disappointed General Motors must now confront the possibility of shutting Saab down

• GM Keeps Opel, Announces Job Cuts, Angers Germans
• Financial Toolkit - Black (and Gold) Friday

Holiday Shopping: This Year It's a Game of Chicken

A showdown is looming between retailers and bargain-hunting shoppers over who will blink first at the cash register this holiday season

• TIME.com's Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• Black Friday—Shop Till You Drop

Weekly Jobless Claims Drop Below 500,000

The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week to the lowest level in over a year

Washington Post to Close Bureaus

The Washington Post will close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago at the end of the year to save money and will focus news efforts on covering the nation's capital

Will Private Equity Be the Next Meltdown?

Private-equity firms, such as Blackstone, KKR and Carlyle, have bought thousands of companies over the past decade using mostly debt. In a new book, author Josh Kosman argues that these leveraged acquisitions will produce the next financial meltdown

• FHA: Housing's Safety Net Begins to Fray
• Financial Toolkit - Black (and Gold) Friday

Techland

Savoring a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

For 36 years now, Lucy has been taunting Charlie Brown to kick that same football, yanking away at the last second.

The Curious Capitalist

I Gave a Speech About Fischer Black, and all I Got Was this Not-At-All-Lousy T-Shirt

Aaron Brown organized an event at Bloomberg HQ tonight to celebrate the reissue of the late Fischer Black's books Business Cycles and Equilibrium and Exploring General Equilibrium.

It's Your Money

Credit Card Fee Watch: Will Big New Upfront Fees Replace the Hidden Old Ones?

In Australia, credit card issuers simply tack on a percentage — over 5% in some cases — when a customer makes a purchase using plastic. Is this where we're headed?

Five Painless Ways to Cut Expenses

Trimming the home budget doesn't have to mean more macaroni and fewer cable channels. Here are five ways to smartly - and painlessly - cut your family's expenses.