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If you're wondering if you're better off filing your income taxes through an online tax preparation service, a standard certified public accountant, or a more elaborate tax specialty firm, you may want to read an article called "Joel Stein Has Four Accountants."

His testimony has raised the possibility that other agencies kept important information from ATF, lawmakers say. They're warning the Justice Department not to take action against the ATF chief or others who tell their stories.

In the depths of the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal cut unemployment dramatically. But by the start of his second term, when things were starting to look up, he switched gears to promote austerity. Unemployment soared. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says rushing to cut spending was a mistake then — and could be again today.

One of the challenges policymakers meeting in Wyoming this weekend are wrestling with is how to get control of the government's red ink without kicking the economy's wobbly legs out from under it.

Households' net worth rose 2.1 percent last quarter -- the four straight quarterly gain. Yet tumbling stock prices have reduced their wealth since then. Some economists say Americans' net worth may now be down slightly for the year. That helps explain why many say it will at least 2012 or 2013 before Americans' wealth returns to pre-recession levels.

Ford Motor Co. earned $6.6 billion in 2010 — its highest profit in a decade. Still, the company is not out of the woods. It's stock price dropped 13 percent on Friday, it's trying to climb out of debt, and it could face tough union negotiations just as it's trying to secure a foothold in the Chinese car market.

A clearly frustrated President Obama displayed impatience Friday with world leaders' failure to reach a new climate accord, urging them to accept a less-than-perfect pact while offering no new U.S. concessions.

The Japanese automaker, which may recall 270,000 more vehicles, is trying to win back its reputation with U.S. consumers. Toyota has hired outside experts to examine its cars, taken steps to improve quality control and is offering some of the best incentives in the industry.

There's no question the economic recovery is going slowly. There's also no question that the gap between rich and poor Americans has grown wider than any time since the Great Depression. Analysts explore the links between income inequality and troubles in the overall economy.

California lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward cracking down on the middlemen that help private investment firms land lucrative contracts with the state's giant pension funds.