The Great Recession has affected freight transportation in many ways but most of all it has provided a lesson in survival. "We did what most businesses did in order to survive - things that in our ...

Economic uncertainty often forces a shift in how we spend and save. During the Great Recession of the late 2000s — when unemployment hit 10% and home values dropped by 30% — many tightened their ...

The economy has improved significantly since 2008, but Steve Wellington says he’s still not ready to make just any real estate deal. Wellington, founder and president of St. Paul-based Wellington ...

The 2008 financial crisis upended lives overnight; jobs disappeared, savings shrank, and uncertainty became the norm. But ...

What's good for your neighbor is good for you. Charles Bone, one of the founders of law firm Bone McAllester Norton, said that he was frustrated earlier in his career, when as attorney for Sumner ...

As states across America brace for economic turbulence, it’s tempting to look back to the Great Recession, when states also faced significant revenue shortfalls, for a playbook: cut budgets first, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For some small business owners, the Great Recession turned out to be a lesson in how to run their companies better. Many owners whose businesses failed during the recession have taken ...

Economic uncertainty often forces a shift in how we spend and save. During the Great Recession of the late 2000s — when unemployment hit 10% and home values dropped by 30% — many tightened their ...

US housing starts peaked in January 2006. Home prices did the same in the middle of the year or early 2007, depending on the metric. Yet the jobless rate barely rose over the 2006-2007 period, from ...

This happened before. It will happen again. Charlie Cook, chairman of Nashville Bank & Trust, said that recessions come and go. It's not the first time that overexuberance has caused the economy to go ...