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Exxon's growing reliance on expensive oil

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:57pm MST

Exxon Mobil outlined plans Thursday that rely heavily on oil from tough to reach places, extracting it from the depths of the ocean, the frozen Arctic and the tar sands in Canada's frozen tundra.
Nurses paid more than family doctors

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:57am MST

Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries.
Households recovering from economic freefall

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:56am MST

The net worth of American households increased slightly during the final three months of 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.
Fast food chains face tomato famine

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:11am MST

Fast food joints are scrambling to find alternate sources for one of America's favorite sandwich toppings after a winter freeze took a huge bite out of Florida's tomato harvest.
Financial reform bill coming from Democrats

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:36am MST

Senate Democrats on banking panel plan to release and start working on a financial overhaul bill next week, without Republican support.
Brighter outlook for international airlines

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:32am MST

The international airline business is improving, said an industry group Thursday, and while losses are still expected for 2010, they should be half the size previously forecast.
Trusting science on climate change

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:52am MST

Those beating the global warming drum have sure taken a few lumps lately.
Why the U.S. can't inflate its way out of debt

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:41am MST

It's dawning on people that getting a handle on burgeoning U.S. debt will be a long and hard process.
Jobless claims edge lower

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:02am MST

The number of Americans filing continuing claims for unemployment insurance spiked last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, as sluggish hiring continues to drag on the labor market's recovery.
Driving deaths plunge, fewest since 1954

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:12am MST

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday that traffic fatalities in 2009 reached their lowest level since 1954.
11 quirky budget cuts

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:24am MST

From police horse to fireworks to wrangling stray chickens, these cash-strapped cities are eliminating all kinds of services.
Health-care reform's 'back-door' tax

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:05am MST

The big talk on Capital Hill may be about health-care reform, but as part of this massive undertaking, the Democrats are quietly reshaping the tax system too. Tucked inside President Obama's latest health-care proposal is a major change to the Medicare tax.
Flunking banks out of college

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:35am MST

President Obama has been waging a war with banks over who gets to dole out cheap student loans backed by the federal government.
Foreclosures leveling off

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:59am MST

The national foreclosure rate fell 2% in February from a month earlier, according to an industry report released Thursday, the latest sign that the pace of foreclosures is slowing.