Monday - December 29, 2008 - While Many Retailers Will Fold . . . Discount Retailers Should Thrive in 2009, Kuntsler: The Consumer Economy is Dead,

Jim Kuntsler's "Forecast for 2009" says the Consumer Economy is Dead

Dismal holiday sales could take down retailers and malls

Understatement of the day - Blagojevich lawyer: Wiretaps reveal 'unfortunate' remarks

Virginity pledges do not work says report from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Gaza death toll now over 350 after 3rd day of Israeli attacks

Fifty Herbert Hoovers

Veterans of the S&L Crisis of the late 80s and early 90s . . . many of them former government insiders . . . are licking their chops over the distressed assets of today

High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV

Man dies from horrific burns after his wife set his genitals on fire

A1A News' Teacher of the week: Australian swears at 5th grade students, allows them to run amok, and provides an unsafe atmosphere for learning and still keeps job

Forbes: 5 ways you can cut your phone bill

Fire Department training goes wrong when Firemen kick in wrong door

Oldest man in America dies

As Economy sours, counterfeiting surges

Renaissance Technologies 3 Hedge Funds staffed by math wizards and using complex algorithms are thumping the Markets: one of them is up 58% in 2008. (Click here to see some of what they've been buying)

Waking up the hard way as you go to enter your truck: Chilling game of hide and seek with a hungry polar bear (2 trucks, 6 photos)

Federal debt held by Foreigners and International Investors approaches $3 Trillion

One family's losing fight to modify their loan after an ARM reset raised their mortgage payments by more than 60%

Two avalanches in Western Canada: 3 snowmobilers rescued, 8 still missing

The Web's Free-Labor Economy has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don't pay them money

Doses of vitamin B1 (thiamine) can reverse early kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes, research shows.



Nashville Business Journal says discounters like Wal-Mart, Dollar General and Family Dollar are best positioned to ride out 2009, while other retailers will fold