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The producer price index rose in July at its fastest clip in six months. That's not necessarily bad. What inflation rate implies a healing economy?

This week may -- just may -- mark the end of the often crazed debate about how much spending should be cut from the federal budget over the next six months.

After six months of coping with stop-gap funding measures, federal agencies have quietly started instituting hiring freezes, withholding grants and curtailing work on critical projects.

The fiscal year is nearly half over, but lawmakers are still shooting spitballs across the aisle over a very small part of the budget instead of doing what they should have done six months ago -- fund the government for the rest of the year.

A bank customer learns that he can pay $30 to stop payment on a check — but that the fee covers only the first six months.

After facing a $1.8 billion shortfall just six months ago, Virginia closed its fiscal 2010 budget with a $220 million budget surplus.

Personal spending was flat in April, after six months of increases, while income rose, according to a government report released Friday.

Seven organizations working to help survivors of the earthquake will share the gifts made during the star-studded event, which also raised millions in corporate donations and will continue to collect individual contributions over the next six months....

Dear Annie: My son is going to graduate from college in December with a B.S. in computer science, and I am just wondering about the IT job market.

On the one hand, we keep hearing about layoffs and outsourcing, but on the other hand, everything runs on computers now, so surely there must be some good tech jobs in this country, especially at the (relatively cheap) entry level.

Is there anything he can do to increase his chances of getting hired six months from now? -Pasadena Papa

The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance fell to the lowest level in six months, according to government data released Thursday.