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Declining property-tax revenues, high energy prices and other financial headwinds will create greater economic hardships in 2009 for most cities across the U.S., a new report says.

High energy prices have become a bitterly contested political issue.

High energy prices have become the No.

Consumer confidence in Europe's biggest economy declined for a fourth month in a row, sliding to another five-year low as lower energy prices failed to bolster Germans' likelihood of buying new goods, a report released Tuesday found.

Dirt and its upmarket cousins offer a glimpse of how rising energy prices have caused inflation in the grittier corners of the consumer culture.

An ugly brew of rising unemployment, spiking foreclosures and gyrating energy prices is plaguing the country and making life difficult for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he tries to right the economy.

An ugly brew of rising unemployment, spiking foreclosures and gyrating energy prices is plaguing the country and making life difficult for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he tries to right the economy.

The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future.Weighed down by energy prices and the housing crisis, employers laid off workers in stores, factories and forsaken building sites.

For three years running, the Eclipse Foundation and its development community have successfully released—in full synchronicity—dozens of interoperable projects consisting of millions of lines of code.

Impressive feat. Perhaps some of those developers might consider running for public office here in the U.S., where with energy prices approaching the stratosphere, the Congress can’t even agree on whether to drill for their country’s own oil resources.

This year’s Eclipse “release train” is Ganymede, and contains not only updates to numerous existing projects, but also some...

The stock market is taking another major hit today after consumer confidence numbers came in well below expectations.

The Conference Board, which measures the monthly consumer confidence number, reports that June’s number fell to 50.4%, down from 57% in May.

Big investors had been anticipating consumer confidence numbers in the 56% or 57% range. But those are just numbers – the real questions what are they telling us?

And what does that mean for the technology sector. The answer to the first question is easy. Americans are absolutely terrified about rising energy prices.

With the cost...