For Citibank credit card holders, there is one way to escape the bank's rate hikes currently under way: Meet a monthly spending requirement. Those who meet the spending minimum -- in some c

When Daniel Morris, an employee at the Oregon Department of Health, first saw the numbers, he was sure that something was wrong.Looking at tobacco production figures for April 2009, he noticed that p

If you think you’re immune to the machinations of the credit-card industry, think again. Read every communication like it’s your very first one. I recently got a preferred customer 0% APR

Editor's Note: See Ron Coby's first "letter" to Ben Bernanke here. Dear Mr. Bernanke,As a follow-up to my most recent letter, I once again want to say thanks. I was so relieved on Wednesday

When the NBA rolled into Atlanta in 2003 with its All-Star Week events, so did “The World’s Famous Players Ball,” an annual gathering of some of the country’s most notorious p

If you were to book a room for two for February 5 through 8, 2010 -- the weekend of next year's Super Bowl -- at Miami’s Marriott’s (MAR) Villas at Doral, which is 11.3 miles away from th

Bust out the champagne, the DJIA hit 10,000! (At least, that’s what the financial media wants you to do.)The market shot up today on positive earnings news from Intel (INTC) and JPMorgan (JPM).

The bears strongly believe we’ve been in a bear market rally since March. A “rally” that will suck in the very last dollar before the market plunges once again into a giant bull tra

Exactly twelve months after its first close below 10,000 in almost four years, changed days indeed for the Dow. Amid seventieth birthday celebrations for The Wizard of Oz equities were all emerald ci

In the wee hours of the morning, a few stories broke that led to a commodities rally, a dollar whacking, and finally a stock rally. The first came from the down under as the Reserve Bank of