Recently, the government’s Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, “suggested” that outgoing Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis should take home $0 in salary for 2009, and receive a bonus of e

Friday’s successful launch of Dollar General’s (DG) IPO suggests the recession is a good time for deep discounters, or stores that offer rock-bottom prices to cash-strapped shoppers.Dolla

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1. Behold, the Green Shoots!It's a good day to be an optimist. A couple of datapoints out this morning surprised to the upside by a significant margin. First, the Institute of Supply Managements' fac

“I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.” -- Jay-ZFrom the Marcy Houses in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to a hip-hop superstar with nearly 40 million albums sold, to a corner offic

I made a lot of presumptions about China and its people before coming here. If there’s one that’s proven true, it’s their dedication to education. While the Chinese may not always b

Verizon Growth Continues Verizon (VZ) reported earnings for its fiscal third quarter. The second-largest phone company in the US said profits came in at $0.60 a share, beating analyst estimates by a

This week, Google (GOOG) launched a global marketing campaign to advertise its online apps to business holdouts still relying on desktop programs by Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), and IBM (IBM).Acco

JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the first of the big banks to report third-quarter earnings, kicked it off with a bang this morning. The New York-based bank said its quarterly profit jumped to $3.6 billion, or