20 last week, an industry survey showed, threatening to further shake consumer sentiment as the nation hovers on the brink of recession. The price rose 9 cents on Friday from two weeks earlier, according to oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg's ...

And there already is a welter of antirecessionary proposals pending in Congress -- including major bills by Sen ... Many -- if not most -- economists say the country already is in a ...

Taken together, the fiscal package and the Fed's own rate reductions would amount to a jolt to the economy that would be enough to keep it out a recession ... On Wall Street, where the clamor about a recession remains at a fever pitch, investors ...

The better-than-expected surge lessened fears of an imminent recession ... Still, the strong November relieved some concerns that a recession might be ...

The central bank's action was the latest in a series of extraordinary moves - many in just the past few days and weeks - as the Fed seeks to prevent a financial catastrophe that could plunge the country into a deep recession ... "Maybe the ...

The new governor will face an economy predicted to be heading for a sharp downturn and possibly a recession in the first half of this year, in the wake of the U ... ...

  When we are debating whether we are in a recession or depression, I think everybody is feeling the pain ...   Maybe the people who lose their job in the recession will do so faster because of their credit card debt, but that outcome not only ...

With the United States seemingly on the verge of a recession and stock markets falling sharply around the world, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is not contemplating any increase in production ... Prices rebounded this week ...

But the positive retail number did little to change the view of economists who are forecasting the economy will fall into a recession in the first half of this year ... "Consumer spending is still decelerating quite dramatically," said ...

The strong Fed action seemed to convince investors, at least for now, that the central bank will do whatever it can to keep the nation out of a steep recession ... The three rate cuts over the course of two months represent the most aggressive Fed ...

economy, already hampered by an unrelenting credit crisis, is succumbing to recession ... This week's declines in the three major stock indexes to their lowest settlements since 2006 came despite the Federal Reserve's announcement that it would ...

A growing number of analysts believe the economy will slip into a recession this quarter although they expect the downturn to be short and mild, thanks to aggressive interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and a $168 billion economic stimulus ...

" Gramm also wrote that, "Whining, one of the general symptoms of Recession, can be treated or controlled with alcohol or drugs or even having sex, though for most, due to the another symptom of Recession, the treatment is unaffordable ... ...

The way to get the country out of recession - and most people think we're in one - is to get the country out of Iraq, according to an Associated Press- Ipsos poll. Pulling out of the war ranked first among proposed remedies in the survey, ...

The quarter-point cut was less than many in the market said was needed to forestall a recession and to head off the worst effects of the continuing crisis in the credit markets ... "By cutting only 25 basis points, the Fed effectively conveys ...