After working 28 years for a Park Avenue publishing company in New York, Linda Quirk of Brandon was pretty confident of her job security. ...more

January 14, 2009

After working 28 years for a Park Avenue publishing company in New York, Linda Quirk of Brandon was pretty confident of her job security. ...more

January 13, 2009

I'd estimate that about 75 percent of the e-mails in my inbox are from people who are swamped with credit card debt. Many, particularly in this economy, have had to rely on the plastic because they lost their job or their gas and food bills are sky-high, but about a third can place the blame on shopping, specifically, clothes shopping. ...more

September 28, 2008

Many Americans allowed themselves to fantasize about large-screen TVs, European vacations and other luxuries when they learned of the federal rebates they'd be getting this spring and early summer. ...more

May 30, 2008

Consumers gave some of the nation's retailers a little relief in April after months of dismal sales, gravitating toward less-expensive discounters and wholesale clubs but generally still shying away from stores selling clothes and other non-necessities. ...more

May 9, 2008