No, the headline above isn't asking you what you're doing. Instead, it is a question county officials are asking Pinellas residents as they decide how to deal with a projected revenue shortfall for the 2010 fiscal year. ...more

February 28, 2009

It's a wild ride, but the nation's economy isn't going to keep going down, down, down. ...more

October 7, 2008

Spring's Economic Rebound Unlikely To Last Gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, its fastest pace in nearly a year, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. ...more

August 31, 2008

Bigger may not always be better, some local bankers think. Smaller community banks have weathered the economic storm better than many of the giant banking institutions, Patriot Bank Chief Executive Officer Stephen G. Zahorian argues. The Trinity-based bank has five branches in West Pasco and North Pinellas ...more

August 13, 2008

The U.S. economy may be suffering from its first bout of stagflation since the start of this decade, reports on housing, prices and manufacturing indicated. ...more

June 18, 2008

Has Highlands County's economic woes hit bottom and started slowly creeping up? Do we even dare say such things out loud in fear that there will be some kind of jinx? It's hard to say on both counts, but a few smart people believe we might have hit bottom and that we have no where to go but up. We certainly hope that's true. A lot of houses are on the market these days and it seems like in the last month or so, some of them are being sold. That probably has to do with prices falling enough that buyers don't want to miss a good thing, but it's still a good sign. The first sign of an improving economy will be some of those "For Sale" signs being topped off with "Sold" signs. ...more

May 19, 2008

When the state lowered its revenue predictions this spring, lawmakers chose not to renew the annual sales tax holiday on hurricane supplies this year. ...more

May 19, 2008

In a sluggish economy, Gov. Charlie Crist is offering a budget that taps deeply into reserves to build what he calls a "bridge to the future." By gambling that an economic rebound is coming soon, Crist avoids making the tough choices circumstances require. ...more

February 12, 2008

Pressure from property owners to lower their taxes is running headlong into economic challenges posed by the state's sputtering economy. ...more

November 16, 2007

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that economic growth will slow noticeably in coming months while surging oil costs will raise inflation pressures. But he said the economy is nowhere close to the stagflation nightmare of the 1970s and he predicted an economic rebound by mid-2008. ...more

November 9, 2007