First Person: Is Facebook Undermining My Household Budget?

COMMENTARY | Facebook offers its IPO this Friday, and the estimated share price keeps going up, $34 to $38 per share at last check, according to the WSJ. Naturally, most coverage has focused on the investing angle-should I try to buy or not? Will Facebook live up to the hype? But since my husband and I can't afford shares and likely wouldn't be able to get any even if we could, I took the ...

Real Federal Deficit Dwarfs Offical Tally

The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget.

Household costs to rise but less than expected

The Government will raise electricity prices by 3.5 per cent, in line with inflation, lower than the predicted five per cent. The cost of water will also increase by six per cent.

Comparing your household budget to the federal budget

The U.S. faces a financial meltdown. That's what Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn said, and if that's not enough he said the federal government is in the midst of committing murder to our republic.

Real federal deficit four times official U.S. tally

The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds.