Remember deflation? Prices appeared to be circling the drain last summer, raising fears of a Japanese-style "lost decade" of spiraling personal debt, falling wages and economic stagnation. Well, you ...

Today marks the last day of the Fed's financial asset purchase program known as QE2. What impact did QE2 have? What should we expect to happen now that it is ending? Traditionally, the Federal Reserve ...

U.S. investors have been so preoccupied with recent action by the U.S. central bank that we have neglected to recognize the impact such actions could have on the global economy, and perhaps more ...

The Federal Reserve is wrapping up its $600 billion QE2 treasury bond-buying program this month. Did it work or was it a waste of money? Some media analysis of QE2's effectiveness is shoddy. Based on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Now for a trivia quiz. In 2004, the dowager liner of the ocean, Queen Elizabeth 2, was dethroned by her ingenue sister, Queen Mary 2, which took over ...

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen ...

The QE2, which was launched 50 years ago, was a British "style icon" that became one of the most famous liners in the world - but it also marked the end of generations of large passenger ships being ...

The QE2, which sailed on its last voyage from its former home port of Southampton in England, was greeted by a large flotilla of private craft including the giant yacht My Dubai, owned by the ...

Claim: The ocean liner QE2 uses a gallon of fuel for every six inches she travels. Figures like those are difficult for many of us to appreciate in the abstract, so we often come up with shortcuts ...