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

Editor's Note: This article was written by energy journalist and government energy adviser John C.K. Daly of OilPrice.com, which offers free information and analysis on energy and commodities. The si

Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis, the Georgia State grad who hailed from small town Mississippi, finally earned his spot among the ego-driven Ivy League MBAs of Wall Street last year. He had tried

One might think that entrepreneur Scott Shickler has been cloned: He owns a full-scale restaurant in Roswell, Georgia, a software company, and is spinning off a gourmet dessert company (not to mentio

Markup can be a killer, especially with a discretionary purchase that makes your heart sing. The Federal Reserve reports that consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 10.5% in July and rev

In the business of sports, there’s been a lot of ink spent in the past week on examining the groundbreaking, yet still pending, sale of the woeful New Jersey Nets to Russian billionaire Mikhail

After hitting 11-month highs on Tuesday, stocks slipped in subsequent sessions and ended with their steepest weekly drop since July. The Lost Symbol won big at bookstores but tickers everywhere tanke

If I buy a single futures contract for ethanol on the Chicago Board of Trade, am I literally buying 29,000 gallons of the stuff?What about picking up a contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for

For anyone compiling a ranking list at home, recent actions have slightly altered the hierarchy of ethnicities that Wal-Mart (WMT) values most. In order to keep up to date, remove the Hispanic and Na

stock has steadily risen for nearly 40 years. For a company that doesn't produce tobacco or radioactive waste -- not including the McRib -- McDonald's has arguably seen more negative press stemm