With the stock market trickling upwards, do you think the economy is improving? Articles How you’ll know when wretched recession is over 1. The Job Market: When the month-to-month job loss numbers in the city and nation start getting lower a ‘ instead of climbing.

A foreclosed home on Wigan Pier Drive in the Palm Hills community near Horizon Ridge Parkway is seen Monday.

Dateline gets to the bottom of how bad loans and greed wrecked the U.S. economy in this hour-long investigation.

Q: I am 4 1/2 years into a 15-year mortgage at a fixed rate of 5.875 percent.

What's the value of an ocean-view home set some 50 yards from a beach, with a total of six bedrooms, 6 1/2 baths and a pool in sun-drenched Costa Rica? A lot less than you'd think.