U.S. Bank loans and leases declined by $105 billion in the two weeks following the banking system disruption, suggesting some downward pressure ahead for the U.S. economy. A plus 1% spread between the ...

How do you know whether or not to set something off in commas in a sentence? Are the added words essential (restrictive) or not (nonrestrictive)? that limits the meaning of what it modifies. And it ...

For nearly 60 years, the Safeway grocery store operated in downtown Greeley, Colorado. It was old and not always fully stocked, but it provided fresh food for people in the area. “It was very handy, ...

Several years back, I was roundly criticized for using the one-word “sometime” and the restrictive noun phrase “my wife Leonor” in this lead sentence of a column of mine: “Sometime ago, my wife Leonor ...