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Customers form a queue to fill their gasoline canisters, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Staten Island borough of New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.(AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
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Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland Republican, decries what he calls “the usual environmentalist overreaction” to hydraulic fracturing as a means of drilling for natural gas, and says that “will unfortunately cost Maryland.” (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Nearly a third of U.S. homeowners have been stuck with houses worth less than they paid and ended up over their heads in debt with mortgages that borrowers often could not refinance because they had no equity. Studies show that recessions resulting from major financial collapses, such as the monumental housing bust and banking crisis of October 2008, usually have slow and difficult recoveries.
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A yellow crane sorts out the rubble of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a collection site in northeastern Japan. Japan’s accounting of its budget for reconstruction from the disasters is crammed with spending on unrelated projects. (Associated Press)
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A retailer in Philadelphia offers a 30 percent discount on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 file photo a coffee shop owner tells journalists that he has had an 80 percent drop in his business, in Athens. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Protesters stand in front of a banner reading "Workers United never Defeated" during an anti-austerity protest by Greek labor unions in Athens, on Wednesday Oct. 31 2012. Greece's government on Wednesday outlined the new austerity measures it intends to take over the next two years, a series of painful spending cuts and tax hikes that its international bailout creditors are demanding in exchange for rescue loans. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
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In this Oct. 26, 2011, photo, the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel towers above Pyongyang, North Korea. International hotel operator Kempinski AG said on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, that it will manage the pyramid-shaped hotel, which is expected to open next year with shops, offices, ballrooms, restaurants and 150 rooms. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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In this April 1, 2012, photo, the sun is reflected from the top of the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel, which remains under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. International hotel operator Kempinski AG said on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, that it will manage the pyramid-shaped hotel, which is expected to open next year with shops, offices, ballrooms, restaurants and 150 rooms. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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A North Korean woman walks past the construction site of the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Aug. 22, 1990. Work on the 3,000-room pyramidal building, begun almost a decade earlier, was expected to be completed in 1992 after financial problems. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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The home at 1011 N. Washington St. at the tip of Old Town Alexandria is on the market for $1,995,000. The single-family home, which is part of the Liberty Row condominium development, has 6,900 square feet.
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Milagros Rodriguez, from the Dominican Republic, works at her salon, Woodside Beauty Salon in Queens, N.Y. A study says two-thirds of job growth since 2009 has been among immigrants. (Associated Press)
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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in New York. Traffic is snarled, subways out of commission, streets flooded and power out in many parts of the city, but the exchange opened without hitch Wednesday after a historic two-day shutdown, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
