NEW YORK (AP) – There's no business like small business.

Mix the high stakes of running a small business with a dash of family drama and throw in a camera crew and you get hit reality television shows such as "Pawn Stars," ''Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" and "Duck Dynasty."

2. Obama, Top Lawmakers to Meet as Cuts Kick In - Thursday, February 28, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House conceded Wednesday that efforts to avoid automatic budget cuts are unlikely to succeed before they kick in and is initiating new talks with congressional leaders to confront seemingly intractable tax-and-spend issues.

3. Obama Seeks to Leverage $1 Trillion Spending Bill - Wednesday, December 14, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate are using a critical year-end spending bill as political leverage to try to force Republicans to negotiate bipartisan legislation to extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits due to expire at the end of the year.

4. MULYP Awards Honor ‘Agents of Change’ - Friday, December 02, 2011

Memphis Urban League Young Professionals celebrates its second annual Agents of Change Awards Saturday, Dec. 3, honoring individuals and organizations that have made contributions to the community.

5. US Wealth Gap Between Young and Old is Widest Ever - Tuesday, November 08, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt.

6. Legislators Eye Lower Lottery Prize Money, Easier Ticket Purchases - Tuesday, November 01, 2011

NASHVILLE – Some Tennessee legislators are eying a reduction in prize payouts for Tennessee lottery players while letting them buy tickets with debit or credit cards.

The proposals are among ideas that are being floated as a way to generate more money that can be used for college scholarships.

7. White House Threatens to Veto Boehner's House Plan - Wednesday, July 27, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

8. Childhood in Kitchen Inspires Apothecary Fairy - Monday, June 06, 2011

Elia Singer, known by natural skin care enthusiasts as the “Apothecary Fairy,” grew up watching her Norwegian mother and grandmother whip up their own unique beauty preparations using fruits, oils and homegrown herbs in the family’s kitchen.

9. At Spill Hearing, BP CEO Says He's 'Deeply Sorry' - Friday, June 18, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Chastened by heavy criticism from lawmakers, a grim-faced BP chief executive Tony Hayward said Thursday he was "deeply sorry" for his company's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

10. Democrats Propose Further Tax Hike on Offshore Oil - Wednesday, June 09, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats Tuesday proposed quintupling the tax that oil companies pay into a spill liability fund as they seek to pare back a House-passed tax hike on investment fund managers.

11. Senate Approves Tax Breaks for New Hires - Thursday, February 25, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats Wednesday delivered the first of several promised election-year jobs bills, passing a measure blending tax breaks for companies that hire unemployed workers with highway funding eagerly sought by the states.

12. Shoppers, Wary of Credit Cards, Get Creative - Monday, December 21, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) - Shoppers are doing all they can to keep their credit cards in their wallets this holiday season.

They're paying with cash, direct debits from bank accounts, taking advantage of free financing and even cashing in frequent flier miles.

13. Events - Friday, September 25, 2009

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will host screenings of John Michael McCarthy’s film “Cigarette Girl” today and Saturday at 1 p.m. at the museum, 1934 Poplar Ave. Cost is $5 for members and $7 for nonmembers.

14. War-Funding Bill May Face Difficulty in Senate - Thursday, June 18, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that this is the last time Congress will go through the ordeal of passing an off-the-books, expensive bill to fund two wars. It may also be one of the more difficult.

15. Red Flags Abounded During SEC Probe Of Stanford Cos. - Tuesday, February 24, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) – As with the Bernard Madoff case, the scandal surrounding billionaire R. Allen Stanford now seems clear and obvious in hindsight. Yet Stanford managed to run his alleged scheme even while the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators investigated his businesses.

16. Economic Crisis, Obama Response Face New Congress - Wednesday, January 07, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - The new Congress opened for business at the stroke of noon on Tuesday, eager to join President-elect Barack Obama in tackling the worst economic crisis in generations. Democrats celebrated last fall's election gains in the House and Senate.

17. Developers Ask for Bailout As Massive Debt Looms - Wednesday, December 24, 2008

With a record amount of commercial real-estate debt coming due, some of the country’s biggest property developers have become the latest to go hat-in-hand to the government for assistance.

They’re warning policymakers that thousands of office complexes, hotels, shopping centers and other commercial buildings are headed into defaults, foreclosures and bankruptcies. The reason: $530 billion of commercial mortgages will be coming due for refinancing in the next three years – with about $160 billion maturing in the next year, according to research firm Foresight Analytics LCC. Credit, meanwhile, is practically nonexistent and cash flows from commercial property are siphoning off.

18. Developers Ask for Bailout as Massive Debt Looms - Tuesday, December 23, 2008

With a record amount of commercial real-estate debt coming due, some of the country's biggest property developers have become the latest to go hat-in-hand to the government for assistance.

They're warning policymakers that thousands of office complexes, hotels, shopping centers and other commercial buildings are headed into defaults, foreclosures and bankruptcies. The reason: according to research firm Foresight Analytics LCC, $530 billion of commercial mortgages will be coming due for refinancing in the next three years – with about $160 billion maturing in the next year. Credit, meanwhile, is practically nonexistent and cash flows from commercial property are siphoning off.

19. Hill Opposition Jeopardizes Auto Industry Rescue - Friday, December 12, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Prospects for a $14 billion auto industry rescue bill dimmed Thursday amid growing opposition in both parties and despite urgent appeals by both President-elect Barack Obama and President George W. Bush.

20. Bush, Hill Leaders: Job Losses Argue for Auto Help - Monday, December 08, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush and congressional leaders seized on the latest grim unemployment data Friday to try to fire up lukewarm support on Capitol Hill for bailing out U.S. automakers. But they clashed anew over terms of the rescue plan and the source of any aid.

21. Automakers Pitch Congress Anew on Rescue - Friday, December 05, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Humbled U.S. automakers pleaded with Congress on Thursday for an expanded $34 billion rescue package, but heard fresh skepticism in a bumpy encore appearance.

"We're here today because we made mistakes," General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee in prepared testimony.

22. Chrysler Exec: Failure Could Spark Depression - Thursday, December 04, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Chrysler executive warned Wednesday that a carmaker collapse could send the economy spiraling into a depression, while the United Auto Workers agreed to new concessions for their companies.

23. Detroit Automakers' Rescue Stalls in Senate - Friday, November 21, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance.

24. Auto-Aid Plan Prospects Dim in Partisan Stalemate - Tuesday, November 18, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Prospects dimmed Monday for enactment of a $25 billion bailout for the faltering auto industry before year's end, as congressional Democrats and the Bush administration headed for a stalemate over the plan.

25. Jobless Claims Surge While Trade Deficit Narrows - Friday, November 14, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – Applications for unemployment benefits soared to the highest level since just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks while the trade deficit shrank more than expected as demand for imports plunged, further evidence of the struggling U.S. economy.

26. Democrats at Work to Tap Bailout for Automakers - Friday, November 14, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – Congressional Democrats are marshaling support for a rescue package to pump $25 billion in emergency loans to U.S. automakers in exchange for a government ownership stake in Detroit's car companies.

27. Wall Street Turns to Consumers To Gauge Economy - Tuesday, November 11, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) – Wall Street heads into another turbulent week with investors set to pore over a government report on retail sales and earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to get a better reading on consumers.

28. Top Economic Powers Endorse Plan to Try to Avert Financial Crises - Tuesday, April 15, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Finance officials from the world's top economic powers endorsed a plan Friday aimed at preventing another financial crisis like the credit and mortgage debacles that erupted in the United States and quickly sent tremors around the globe.

29. Fed Announces Further Steps to Ease Credit Crunch - Wednesday, March 12, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday ramped up efforts to provide more relief to squeezed financial institutions, a coordinated action with other central banks aimed at easing a global credit crisis that threatens to push the U.S. economy into its first recession since 2001.

30. Reclaiming the Past - Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Not many people are familiar with Harry T. Cash. They don't know he was the first black boxer to fight a white man in Memphis in 1949. The fight couldn't be held in public; it happened in the basement of another boxer's home. And as he entered the basement, Cash was warned that if he won, he'd better not tell anybody.

31. Archived Article: Real Focus (2ndmort) - Tuesday, December 05, 2000
Second Mortgages Bridge the Gap to Home Ownership Second mortgages bridge gap to home ownership By MARY DANDO The Daily News Most people think of a second mortgage as a home equity loan taken out to pay for high priced items, such as a luxury car or...

32. Archived Article: Realfocus - Tuesday, May 04, 1999
The citys new Middle Income Downpayment Assistance Program encourages home buyers to purchase higher-priced homes within city limits Within reach The citys new Middle Income Downpayment Assistance Program encourages the purchase of higher-priced hom...