I’m a sucker for holiday shopping. As much as I hate to admit it, I look forward to walking into a warm store festooned with pinecones, ribbons and snowflakes and shopping to my heart’s content. […]

Some 898,000 Americans applied for unemployment in early October, the Department of Labor reported Thursday. Up about 53,000 from the week before, this continues a trend of rising unemployment claims. With jobless benefits running dry, there […]