Mortgage applications plunged to a seven-month low last week as demand for home refinancing loans tumbled 30%, data from an industry group showed Wednesday.
Massive investment in renewable energy could ultimately create 4 million manufacturing jobs. But for the workers in the bottom rung of this movement, the shift to green jobs could very well mean a pay cut of nearly 60%, a trend spreading across the entire manufacturing sector.
From where he came, no one could have predicted what Ronald Takaki would become. Raised in a low-income area of Oahu, Hawaii, a descendant of Japanese immigrants who toiled in sugar cane plantation fields, he cared more about surfing than schoolwork.
After spending 10 years in the U.S. Navy, Kenric Scarbrough got a sobering start to his civilian career. He was laid off in January, just months after he found a job as a boiler technician -- one of the victims of the worsening economy.
You've no doubt heard the term "lost decade" to describe what's happened to stocks since 1999. And that may have you wondering whether equities are worth the risk and whether buy-and-hold investing, dollar-cost averaging and dutifully contributing to your 401(k)'s mutual funds are a sucker's bet.
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe.
On his reality show "The Apprentice," Donald Trump plays to the cameras when he tells contestants they're fired. But in the real world, there's no easy way to tell employees they're losing their jobs.
Unemployment could reach 8% in 2009, economists say
A lot of college students feel pressured to binge drink, says University of California, Berkeley, student Joseph Bui.
Mortgage applications plunged to a seven-month low last week as demand for home refinancing loans tumbled 30%, data from an industry group showed Wednesday.
Massive investment in renewable energy could ultimately create 4 million manufacturing jobs. But for the workers in the bottom rung of this movement, the shift to green jobs could very well mean a pay cut of nearly 60%, a trend spreading across the entire manufacturing sector.
From where he came, no one could have predicted what Ronald Takaki would become. Raised in a low-income area of Oahu, Hawaii, a descendant of Japanese immigrants who toiled in sugar cane plantation fields, he cared more about surfing than schoolwork.
After spending 10 years in the U.S. Navy, Kenric Scarbrough got a sobering start to his civilian career. He was laid off in January, just months after he found a job as a boiler technician -- one of the victims of the worsening economy.
You've no doubt heard the term "lost decade" to describe what's happened to stocks since 1999. And that may have you wondering whether equities are worth the risk and whether buy-and-hold investing, dollar-cost averaging and dutifully contributing to your 401(k)'s mutual funds are a sucker's bet.
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe.
On his reality show "The Apprentice," Donald Trump plays to the cameras when he tells contestants they're fired. But in the real world, there's no easy way to tell employees they're losing their jobs.
Unemployment could reach 8% in 2009, economists say
A lot of college students feel pressured to binge drink, says University of California, Berkeley, student Joseph Bui.
In spring 2007, University of California Berkeley Energy and Resources Group professor Ashok Gadgil challenged students in his Design for Sustainable Communities class to come up with an affordable and efficient solar water heater that could be used in low-income households.
Despite the enduring stereotype that girls are less proficient with numbers than boys, a new study suggests there is no longer any such difference
Solving the energy crisis requires sacrifice. For the good of the country, we should be sweating
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned Americans on Wednesday not to be overly optimistic that the U.S. economy might rebound by the end of summer.
In the wake of a surprise court decision, the state says that its home schoolers are "legal" pending appeal
If a shooter came into some of the biggest classrooms at the University of California-Berkeley, recent graduate Scott Alto wonders whether students would be able to protect themselves.
Nanotubes, sheets of carbon one atom thick rolled up into a cylinder 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, may someday replace silicon chips. What can they do now? Pick up FM and AM signals, as Berkeley scientists demonstrated with a radio 100 billion times smaller than the old RCAs.
Your mother was wrong: Sitting up straight is bad for you.
To hear environmentalists tell it, investing in renewable energy won't just provide a clean source of power, it will create an explosion of new jobs.
It isn't often that a psychologist helps explain personal finance, but Daniel Kahneman isn't an ordinary psychologist. In 2002 he won a Nobel Prize in economics for his research into how people confront uncertainty.
Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes
Pranks are as much a part of college as tailgating before a big game or pretending to listen to your professor while you're really IM'ing with your friends. But what are the best pranks of all-time? Here is SIOC's Top 10.
Charles Simonyi, the software programmer credited with developing Word and Excel, has a billion Microsoft dollars to his name, squires Martha Stewart on his arm, and last month became the fifth so-...
Scientists have just released images of the brightest stellar explosion recorded.
Had enough of the gloom and doom in the news these days? Then check out the business section.
Had enough of the gloom and doom in the news these days? Then check out the business section.
Whenever someone from a big professional services firm utters that trite phrase "People are our most important asset," I have to laugh. Because, frankly, people management at those kinds of compani...
The space above you is fizzing with activity as bubbles of superhot gas constantly grow and pop around Earth, scientists announced Tuesday.
First, the good news: U.S. gasoline prices may come down by a dime or so in the next month.
For somebody who isn't sure what to think about the immigration battle being waged these days in Congress, Jagdish Bhagwati's column in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal was strangely reassuring.
It's just the news that hardworking taxpayers want to see in their inbox: an update on their refund from the Internal Revenue Service.
I'm 26 years old and contribute 6 percent of pay to my 401(k), which my company matches. Aside from a menu of 18 different mutual fund options, my plan also has a self-directed brokerage account option that allows me to invest in stocks and other investments. I have the desire to invest and I follow the market news intently, but the minimum fees to trade seem high. Would I be wasting my time investing my 401(k) money through this brokerage account, or is this something that's worth a try?
An online trading platform wants you to stop griping about skyrocketing gas prices and start trading.
A star explodes every second or so, somewhere in the universe. It's how they die, and astronomers call the events supernovas.
NAME: Warren Beatty, a.k.a. the sexiest man in Tinseltown over 65
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IT'S A LITTLE BIT humbling to a professional advice giver like me, but some of the best workplace wisdom I know comes from my readers. Antsy video-generation employees, fast-track foreign languages...
University of California-Berkeley police are investigating the theft of a campus laptop computer containing information on 98,000 individuals.
The domestic debate this election season has centered on job creation, with both candidates using Labor Department statistics to support their own arguments. But now that the economy has been added nearly 2 million jobs since last summer, economists are looking critically at the quality of these new jobs, to determine whether they are paying less than the ones we've lost.
As an added bonus to returning to campus this fall, more than 80,000 college students at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Minnesota will get a hefty monthly discount with RealNetworks' online music store.
Germain-Robin Brandy
Move over Bionic Man and make room for BLEEX -- the Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton, with strap-on robotic legs designed to turn an ordinary human into a super strider.
The last thing a company wants in its factories, trucks, or corporate offices is a layer of dust. But "smart" dust? That's a different story.
Editor's note: As part of our coverage of the 2004 election season, CNN.com is sending correspondents to the colleges where they studied to report on issues affecting today's young voters. In this edition, Meriah Doty returns to her alma mater, University of California at Berkeley.
How does Mother Nature hedge her bets when the economy heads south? It could be by stocking up on baby girls. According to a new study by Ralph Catalano, professor of public health at the Universi...
Let's consider a few fun stats. First, broadband has reached nearly 39 percent of all Internet-connected households and is expected to be in 79 percent in five years. Next, research firm In-Stat/MD...
--DUMB LUCK SchoolSucks.com, a website that provides free term papers, is offering a $200 scholarship to the high school student with a B or C average who submits the best 500-word essay on "Why Ch...
Ta-lin Hsu
Unless you've been living in (or hugging) a tree, you know the country has faced a double whammy this year: a tech disaster and an energy crisis. Here are four companies that have weathered the fir...
Liars, cheats, and thieves. No corporate vermin are more infuriating than the snakes and weasels who take credit for the ideas of others.
Meet the "Tele-Actor," wired up with a camera, microphones, and a wireless Internet connection. Send a Tele-Actor out to a location, and you see what it sees and hear what it hears. Multiple partic...
Manuel Castells is a professor of city and regional planning and sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of the three-volume The Information Age: Economy, Society, a...
Determining a company's worth in today's schizophrenic market is, well, difficult, to say the least. Is the fundamental value of Amazon.com the $40 billion-plus the stock market gave it last Decemb...
Remember your last Truly Great Idea? What if, while you teetered on the cusp of it, the director of marketing slowly, silently, crept into your cubicle and unloaded his clip--of rubber bands, mind ...
Academic journals don't spend much on market research. So it can take years to figure out which articles people actually read (the ones that end up cited elsewhere). The magic of the Internet is ch...
Recently, a 28-year-old student in my personal-finance course at the University of California-Berkeley showed me a computerized retirement analysis proving that he could retire at the tender age of...
Mix fear of death with a distaste of salesmen, and you can see why many people procrastinate about buying life insurance. Well, your computer can't stave off the Grim Reaper. But it can free you fr...
Back when the World Wide Web was new and even radical, I and others hoped that it would one day loosen the middleman's grip on many financial transactions, including home sales. After all, for most...
Anyone old enough to read this column knows better, I hope, than to trust all the free financial advice floating around online. There are no bouncers at the door to cyberspace, and online investmen...
If you're a mutual fund novice, you might as well skip this column. The four programs I'll be reviewing here weren't designed for you. But if you're a serious investor who wants to screen mutual fu...
What would happen to your finances if you had twins, or your spouse stopped working, or you gave up a steady salary to start a business? One of the illusions that you get from personal-finance soft...
WITH SO MANY OF A car's vital functions controlled by microprocessors, driving a car can be a high-tech experience these days. But buying one decidedly is not. The rules of that game haven't change...
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We're all familiar with what's been happening to college prices. My four years at Princeton (class of 1964) cost less than $12,000, while my daughter's four years at Oberlin ('94) topped $90,000. A...
While other publications simply attempt to tell you which colleges are the strongest academically, we set out to identify the 100 best college buys -- the schools that deliver the highest-quality e...
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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA -- Ever since the University of California at Berkeley expelled the ''Naked Guy'' last winter, life hasn't been the same in this | . . . college town. It's been even more revea...
Some years back, when our son was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, he had a curious annual ritual. At a certain time of day, on a certain day in the year, he would march up to a desk in the st...
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America's public colleges and universities still offer some of the best bargains in higher education, despite being caught in a painful squeeze. Demand has never been greater -- the nearly 600 stat...
It is no longer any secret that public universities can provide a solid education -- in some cases rivaling what students can get at elite private institutions -- at a bargain price. During the 198...
By thoroughly investigating colleges now, your child can avoid having to switch schools later on. Each year, an astonishing number of students decide that they made the wrong choice. Based on past ...
With campus visits from recruiters down and job offers scarcer, the MBAs of the Class of '91 may wish they had sought another degree. A Ph.D., for example. While about 30% of the CEOs of the Fortun...
Take one part corporate funding, mix it with several parts university research, and add a chunk of luck. You get a company with leading-edge technology and a school with a royalty-earning product t...
Soon after this article is printed, it will take up residence in the Nexis database and, apparently, become the only verbiage in disk memory whose author is unenthusiastic about diversity in educat...
April is the cruelest month for tens of thousands of anxious high school seniors. Each day they go to the mailbox looking for responses from the colleges of their choice, either in a thick envelope...
Remember portfolio insurance? Fingered by the Brady commission as a culprit in the 1987 stock market crash, this hedging strategy seemed set to go the way of the dodo. Revenues at Leland O'Brien Ru...
Graduating MBAs aren't the only ones after big bucks. Business schools want % money too, and some are ready to rename themselves after you -- provided you can meet the asking price. You're too late...
What would have to happen for conservative America (well, mostly) to become liberal America? We have had difficulty thinking of an answer to that question in recent years -- to be sure, we have not...
Hey, remember the Free Speech Movement? That was the great crusade at Berkeley in 1964 -- the New Left uprising that initiated the great student revolution of the Sixties. It seems hard to credit t...
It's hard to read the health news these days without a paramedic present. There is alar on the fruit, radon in the rathskeller and cholesterol in Mom's apple pie. Diseases whiz in and out of the he...
If reactor phobia faded, only one serious roadblock would bar a new round of nuclear expansion: the lack of a burial site for the 1,700 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel that accumulates annual...
The number of bonded wineries in the U.S. has more than doubled, to over 1,400, in the past dozen years, partly because burned-out executives have been trading in the big-city life for pastoral toi...
Still picking arguments with people who insist that deep down inside everybody is the same as everybody else, we come now to the slightly touchy subject of brainy Asian-Americans. Oddly enough, the...
-- Long before he became chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan opposed the parts of the Glass-Steagall Act that ban commercial banks from dealing in securities. So when he restated his po...
Curious organization, the SEC. Gung-ho for disclosure. Can't seem to get enough of the stuff. So they sit in Washington and agitatedly worry about stockholders maybe being swindled if the proxy sta...
BERKELEY, Calif. -- A federal civil rights official has complained to the University of California at Berkeley that its course catalogue contains sexist language . . . The official, Paul D. Grossma...
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