world war ii

If you have a company-sponsored pension plan, you might be alarmed at some recent news: pension funding levels are at their lowest since World War II .

Following a report Tuesday that home prices have now tumbled further from their peak than during the Great Depression, there was evidence Wednesday that the economic rebound from the worst recession since World War II may be sputtering.

Battered as badly as any economic sector in the country, Nevada's tourism industry has started a slow recovery from the nation's longest and deepest recession since World War II, a leading university economist said Tuesday.

The longest recession the country has endured since World War II ended in June 2009, a group that dates the beginning and end of recessions declared Monday.

That chart in this post, constructed from Case-Shiller data, shows the reality: home prices have actually been pretty steady over time.

In fact, if you look at a fifty-year period after World War II, home prices were absolutely steady.So here's the question: why do people think that home price appreciation is a law of nature, when it so clearly is.

A small story in the context of the rest of the world is the UK Government's call for the banning of forthcoming computer game, Medal of Honor.

British Defence Secretary Liam Fox has called for the ban because unlike its predecessors the game is set in Afghanistan, where of course both US and UK troops are still dying.

The Millennials are the first generation of American workers since World War II who have cloudier prospects than the generations that preceded them.

(University of Houston) Interviews with the wives of French World War II prisoners by University of Houston history professor Sarah Fishman led to lifelong research on the roles of women, gender and family, and an opportunity to co-author a well-received new book, "France and Its Empire Since 1870," published by Oxford University Press.

Though details are sketchy, the fee would recover money put up to bail out the banks, a rescue that has contributed to the largest deficit since World War II.

Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.