Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America

Super low prices on LCD televisions, laptops, clothes and even books generate consumer excitement, but also contribute to overspending and indebtedness — the very things that fueled the economic crisis

Black Friday Sales Were Encouraging, Retailers Say

Throngs of pre-dawn shoppers helped shoot life into Black Friday sales figures, even though big discounts were fewer than last year

• A Brief History Of Black Friday
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Will Dubai's Financial Problems Spread?

Dubai's government announced Thursday it would halt its debt repayments ahead of a $4 billion bill due in a couple of weeks. Is this the beginning of the next crisis? Maybe not

• The Dubai Fallout: Time to Panic, or Not?
• A Five-Star Ghost Town at the End of 'The World'
• Dumping on Dubai: Have Hard Times Hit the Emirates?
• Dubai: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours

Pump It Up: The Development of Iraq's Oil Reserves

Seven years after Saddam Hussein's downfall, energy companies are finally lining up to develop Iraq's vast oil reserves. The country's fate hangs on their success

Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 Billion

Disgraced former chairman of Indian outsourcing giant cooked the books and embezzled millions to buy prime real estate in major cities, investigators say

Techland

Being a Couch Potato Has Never Been Easier

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

Are Store Cards, Extended Warranties a Good Idea?

Be on guard at the checkout line: In all the chaos of holiday shopping season, you can easily get talked into paying extra

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.