Overstock.com's chief executive, Patrick Byrne, and its former auditor, Grant Thoirnton, agree on one thing: Each says the other is a liar.

It's not often that a fired auditor and a client get into a public squabble over who-said-what-when. But Overstock.com and Grant Thornton are doing it.

Here's an unsurprising fact: Young adults are more likely to be unemployed, and more likely to say they plan to cut back on holiday spending.

Sales of existing single-family homes over the past 12 months were up from a year earlier, the first time that had happened since 2006. But prices remain weak.

How one man lost $200 million in 11 years.