Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 19, 2008. Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. March 12, 2008. We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 13, 2007. As the holiday season approaches, a recent poll shows that the economy has beaten Iraq as the issue of most concern to Americans.