As millions of Americans lose their jobs and their homes, Americans may well be losing confidence in the American Dream...

It is going to be fascinating to see how long Kevin Rudd, the greatest illusionist ever to become prime minister of Australia, can maintain this illusion of omnipresent leadership created by his energy, his ubiquity and his hypocrisy...

In cubicles, factories and stores these days, anxious workers are trying to ease each other's economic fears with something akin to, "Well, at least we still have a job."...

The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 percent in February, its highest since 1983, as employers cut 651,000 jobs in what is becoming the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression...