Dec 30th, 2008 · The latest consumer confidence numbers are dismal. Add to that a bleak holiday shopping season and another month of declining housing values, and you have a country in the middle of a recession that shows no sign of letting up. Roben Farzad, senior writer for Businessweek, says the market is taking the numbers in its stride.
Dec 28th, 2008 · The economy is bleak, but fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi says your style shouldn't be. Host Liane Hansen talks to Mizrahi about how to have great holiday style on a budget. Part of Weekend Edition's Eco-Nomical series, a multimedia guide to saving money and the environment this holiday season.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Unemployment numbers for November are out and they paint a bleak picture. Employers cut 533,000 jobs, putting the unemployment rate at a 15-year high. What does this mean for people who are out of jobs and the rest of the economy?
Nov 11th, 2008 · More than 14,000 Iraqi refugees are expected to enter the U.S. this year, and most of them have gravitated to Detroit. But the economy is so bleak that the State Department no longer wants to allow Iraqis to settle in Michigan unless they have immediate relatives already living there.
Oct 29th, 2008 · The dizzying economic situation is giving rise to novel phrases and appropriate expressions. The financial news includes colorful language describing a pretty bleak situation. It's practically baked in the cake.
Oct 25th, 2008 · The stock market keeps tumbling. The outlook for the economy is bleak. But there's actually been some quiet improvement in one corner of finance: money market funds.
Oct 24th, 2008 · William Bolcom's searing opera, after a play by Arthur Miller, is a sometimes bleak, yet always vivid drama set in the Italian-American community of Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the 1950s.
Sep 17th, 2008 · On Peter Gabriel's third self-titled album, producer Steve Lillywhite made sense of the disparate elements that the sometimes-great second album could not. The 1980 release showcased a more song-oriented Gabriel, but also a more bleak side of the former Genesis frontman.