Stocks have soared in 2013, with the Dow climbing almost 11 percent to hit a series of new all-time highs while the S&P 500 has jumped 9.4 percent. And yet, analysts for the most part see equities as fairly cheap. NBCNews.com: Business  Read More →

The political brinkmanship has hurt investor confidence and consumer spending, and if a prolonged stalemate drags into the early months of 2013, the price of Washington’s inaction on the economy could be even steeper. NBCNews.com: Business  Read More →

Question by C: Would being an Investment Banker in an economy like this be bad? Would being an investment banker in a bad economy (like now) be bad? Would it be a bad job to have right now? Best answer: Answer by $ so fresh so clean$ No, because you’d basically be working for companies that need you to sell stocks and bonds for them. So now, it wouldn’t be bad. Good luck. Add your own... 

Question by matthew c: What effect is the bad economy going to have on Games? I personally think the quality of games will either go down, or games will come out and have more and more expansions to milk it out to the max. I also think umbrella Companies such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft will buy smaller, high quality developers like Valve. If they do that we may see bad games AND worse expansions….....