Low fat. No money down. Mission accomplished. Occasionally, the folks behind a product feel the need to paint a picture that isn't necessarily true to lure in the unsuspecting masses. Be it a purport

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With over 16,000 store locations worldwide and 176,000 employees whipping up double tall lattes, the Starbucks (SBUX) franchise doesn't seem like it ever had to struggle from humble roots. Its quick

Ursula M. Burns graduated from college nearly 30 years ago, when “women CEOs were non-existent” and “black women CEOs were unimaginable,” as she told this spring's graduating

Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Through that lens, the current course of fiscal and monetary po

Lloyd Blankfein is a survivor. As the CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS), he's one of the few Wall Street chiefs to emerge from the financial crisis with his firm -- and his job -- intact.He’s certainly

Where there's smoke, there's Geithner? The recent FASB board meeting was on the 11th and the main topics of discussion surrounded concerns and implications of 167 ruling, and improving dis

Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

There’s only six weeks left of 2009, and the question on everyone’s mind is how will the year unfold?Join Todd as he takes a look a look back at the frozen credit markets, the declining d

On Friday, as I pulled together thoughts for my syndicated column, I pinged Scott Reamer to ask him a question. He informed me global central banks and government agencies have thrown upwards of $30