NEW YORK - March 8, 2009 - In a time when the nation's largest banks and corporations are using government aid to barely stay afloat, investors are eyeing their stocks closely for signs of trouble. Sign-readers are pointing to General Electric as the next troublemaker to watch, Joe Nocera of the New York Times reported on Friday.

NEW YORK - March 8, 2009 - To some, the term "survivalist" conjures images of camouflage-clad men stockpiling freeze-dried food in a mountain cabin, but in the current economic crisis, the people quietly preparing to survive catastrophe may just be your next-door neighbors.

NEW YORK - March 5, 2009 - More than 600,000 Amerikans filed initial claims for jobless benefits last week as companies strove to cut the costs of workforces that are producing less as the Depression deepens.

WASHINGTON - March 5, 2009 - The U.S. Depression is dragging down almost every industry in almost every part of the country and businesses do not expect conditions to improve until late this year at the earliest, according to a Federal Reserve report released yesterday.

NEW YORK - March 3, 2009 - An economist from the ratings agency Standard and Poor's has likened the current state of the United States sharemarket to conditions in the late 1930s.

NEW YORK - March 3, 2009 - American International Group should be allowed to go bankrupt because keeping it and other sick financials alive on government support risks ruining the U.S. economy, legendary investor Jim Rogers told CNBC Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - March 3, 2009 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security advisor, has warned that the U.S. could witness riots if the economy continues its downward spiral.