While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Boston Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started.

While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Boston Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started.

With the recession still in full swing, now seems as good a time as any to investigate the potential of money-saving gadgets and devices. While the market is flooded with products that claim to save you money, not all of them actually do.

Statistics show that men and women handle money differently. While there are exceptions to every rule, men generally are better prepared for retirement, are more willing to put money into savings, pay off credit card balances in full and are more educated about investing.

Once the party of fiscal sanity, the Republicans are now wailing that the Democrats health-care plan cheats seniors out of money. Matt Miller on the rights shameless gambit.

Police departments are using some of the stimulus money to arm up, helping to make Obama 'gun salesman of the century.' Take the city of Jeffersonville, Ind. Police there are spending $63,000 of their stimulus bill money to buy 74 new assault rifles for their police cruisers.

The Obama administration will trim its budget deficit forecast for fiscal 2009 to $1.58 trillion, after scrapping money earmarked for bailing out more banks, officials said on Wednesday.

In the past year oil has traded above $120 per barrel and below $50 per barrel, generating plenty of buzz (even within government agencies like the Commodities Futures Trading Commission) about oil speculators and their mysterious ways of making mounds of money.

It's a fact, Twitter is going to have to make big money sooner or later but a recent study shows that the advertising world still has no idea what to make of the monster.