The president's top economic advisor says all's well, and Wal-Mart reports decent April sales. But a closer look at the data shows that the economy has been steadily slowing since January.
Andrew Leonard [2008-05-08]
I'm in the B2B side of the economy
Not the consumer end, and capital spending and capital budgeting
is down for this quarter.
Error-filled chain e-mails designed to scare voters away from Barack Obama are circulating widely on the Internet. Salon deconstructs a pair, one smearing the candidate, the other his wife.