Joel Patterson joined the Marketplace Index team in November 2011.
Temporary holiday hires might be padding December’s big jobs numbers.
Despite record-low mortgage rates, Americans are yet to wade back into home-ownership.
School-subsidized lunch programs report staggering numbers of students in need of help.
The number of bank failures in 2011 fell from the previous year, but banks are far from being out of the woods just yet.
The Dow’s best- and worst-performing stocks of 2011.
The past year wasn’t kind to those with money in the Greek market, but Zambian investors are laughing all the way to the bank.
Despite billion-dollar blockbusters, 2011 saw fewer people in movie theater seats. Are bad films to blame? Try tough competition.
This summer, the pension plans of government employees lost a staggering quarter-trillion-dollars in assets.
Two surveys out today have spenders and scholars upbeat about the health of the U.S. economy, for now at least.
Champagne as an economic indicator for 2012?
