How many homes do you think a real estate agent sells in a year? Ten? Maybe a couple dozen in a really good year? Well, there’s one agent in Las Vegas who did 931 real estate deals last year.
As the auto industry climbs out of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression, workers are demanding higher pay. But the closest thing they are likely to get from a labor agreement between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three that was being negotiated ahead of last night’s midnight deadline is a signing bonus.
Anticipating great end-of-year sales ahead, the majority of would-be car buyers say they’ll be ready to pull the trigger very soon.
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry says Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, but even he knows better. So why would he tell such a lie? Perry wants to ignite a discussion about real spending issues that most politicians won’t touch.
Yesterday morning, Target began selling clothes, accessories, and home furnishings from its new Missoni for Target collection. To say that Target’s collaboration with the Italian fashion house has been a hit is putting it mildly. Many stores were sold out by 9 a.m., and a surge of online shoppers caused Target’s website to crash. Inevitably, [...]
Tough times have translated into a rise in adult children moving back into (or never leaving) their parent’s homes. This spring, 5.9 million young adults aged 25 to 34 lived with their parents, up from 4.7 million before the recession. And over 45% of them have incomes that’d put them below the poverty threshold.
The 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid is estimated to get a solid 40 mpg on the highway. But a team of “hypermiling” specialists—who utilize special driving techniques to boost a vehicle’s fuel economy—just finished a trip through every Lower 48 state while averaging 64.55 miles per gallon. They broke a Guinness World Record in the process.
After a couple years of austerity, we’re again racking up credit card debt at an alarming clip.
Reasonably enough, Americans hate almost everything about the real estate recession. Underwater owners hate that they can neither sell nor refinance, distressed homeowners and consumer advocates hate robo-signing, and just about everyone hates plummeting home values. They even strike fear in the hearts of the buyers who are taking advantage of them.
The fragile economy pushed more Americans into poverty last year, according to the Census Bureau, as median household income fell from the year before.
Daily deal site LivingSocial is teaming up with Whole Foods for a very special, first-of-its-kind promotion: Today only (Tuesday, September 13), $10 buys a voucher worth $20 of merchandise at the supermarket chain. LivingSocial will sell up to one million of the vouchers today to subscribers all over the country.
