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  • Report says commercial real estate will hit bottom in 2010

    Virginia Business - News | 11/06/2009 02:31 am

      For commercial real estate, 2010 will be a grim year of reckoning. A surge of write downs, defaults and workouts will weed out all but the strongest players as ...

  • Party Like It' 1929

    Style Weekly | 10/30/2009 06:00 am

    A tour of the Great Depression's most famous drinks. by Rich Griset

  • Richmond during the Great Depression

    Richmond BizSense | 10/27/2009 08:41 pm

    Recession, resmecession. If you want to see what Richmond was like when the going really got tough, swing by the Valentine Richmond History Center this Thursday night for the opening ...

  • As recession' effects linger, a turning point hard to predict

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 10/18/2009 05:01 am

    Octobers are tough for Wall Street. Eighty years have passed since the crash of 1929 that preceded the Great Depression. But an even bigger drop in October 1987 had little ...

  • Depression-era Fiesta dishes keeps maker afloat

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 09/19/2009 05:01 am

    NEWELL, W.Va. Born of the Great Depression, it was a glossy, color-saturated line of cups, bowls and plates meant to affordably brighten lives and dinner tables. Seven decades later, Fiesta ...

  • Obama Has Tough Message for Wall Street

    Black Voices | 09/14/2009 09:43 pm

    President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street Monday against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression.

  • Fed' Bernanke says economy is poised for growth

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 08/22/2009 05:01 am

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered his most optimistic outlook since the financial crisis struck, saying the economy is on the verge of growing again. Speaking at an annual Fed ...

  • Jobs figures for July beat expectations

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 08/08/2009 05:01 am

    Employers laid off fewer workers in July and the unemployment rate dipped for the first time in 15 months, providing signs that the country may be coming out of the ...

  • Welcome to the bottom: Housing begins slow rebound

    AP Lifestyles | 08/01/2009 03:38 pm

    It was — note the past tense — the worst housing recession anyone but survivors of the Great Depression can remember.

  • Data show housing market starting to recover

    WRIC 8 News | 07/23/2009 10:14 pm

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. housing market has started to recover from the most far-reaching crisis since the Great Depression, data released Thursday show.

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