The past few months have seen a severe uptick in Chapter 13 bankruptcy issues coming to us from Westchester consumers.  Perhaps it’s the high volume of home ownership in Westchester that’s bringing people to an attorney looking for relief.  Maybe it’s the unemployment rate coupled with a high cost of living that’s so prevalent in [...]

Applications are invited for The Economist‘s 2011 Marjorie Deane internships. Financed by the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation, the awards are designed to provide work experience for a promising journalist or would-be journalist, who will spend three months at The Economist writing about economics and finance. Applicants are asked to write a letter introducing themselves, [...]

THE arrival of rain and snow on China’s parched northern plain has raised hopes that the country’s crop of winter wheat will fare better than feared. Food prices, which rose by about 11% in the year to February, have made a big contribution to China’s consumer-price inflation, now running at 4.9%. But if drought is [...]

THERE were howls of protest from the insurance industry when the European Court of Justice ruled on March 1st that a person’s sex should not be used to set insurance policies. It will be expensive for some, argued insurers: no more cheap premiums for careful female drivers, and lower annuities for shorter-lived men. The ruling [...]