Recovery

The markets are faring well and hitting record highs. Does that mean retirement accounts have fully recovered?

A growing number of U.S. homeowners are renting rooms to recovering addicts and turning their properties into so-called ‘sober homes.’ It's a hot but sketchy new real estate market.

A new prepaid debit card targeted at former substance abusers aims to keep the holder's spending on a very short leash.

Despite a dip in home sales last December, new data reveals that overall sales for 2012 were the highest in three years.

The opening of the L.A. auto show comes at an interesting time; the market for cars in the U.S. has rebounded even as the broader economic recovery continues at a painfully slow pace.

With the Federal Reserve's interest rate near zero and the recovery still slow, some economists are speculating on what you might call a "nuclear option".

Republicans have been calling it the weakest recovery in U.S. history, but comparing recessions and recoveries has become incredibly controversial because, as in the case of much of economics, it all depends.

Conflicted news from Federal Reserve reflects tentative relationship drags on between Americans and their money.

Metros with high-tech, manufacturing and reviving housing sectors also recover faster.

Marketplace's Chris Farrell argues that this recovery is more similar to the jobless recoveries of the 1990s and 2000s than of the 1980s and 1970s, and he talks about what to expect going forward.