Some see encouraging signs for the economy. But with jobs scarce, we’ll ask what kind of a recovery, if any, America has in store.

When jobs and hours are cut, who takes the hit? Everybody? A bloodied few? We look at ethics and hard choices in a time of job loss.

A U.S. offensive in Afghanistan. Al Franken heads to the Senate. Mark Sanford keeps talking. And unemployment keeps rising. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The new era of retro-thrift: we’ll look at how the recession has reshaped the spending and saving of Americans.

Heavyweight Harvard economist Martin Feldstein on the economic mess we are in, and maybe, the way out.

OK, here’s the blue economy scenario for 2008. Housing prices keep falling. Credit stays tight. Consumers choke. In retailing, restaurants, travel and more, jobs vanish. In real estate, construction and banking, investment seizes up. Money retreats. Growth is gone. And we’ve got a recession on our hands.
For months, economists have debated whether it’s here already. [...]