Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for chronicling the rich in The Great Gatsby, supposedly said to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different than you and me.”To which Hemingway rep

Economist Brad DeLong, of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. He says the chance of Great Depression now is at 5%:  For 2 1/4 years now I have been

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

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

Assuming you’re a handy guy or gal, when you need to re-roof your house, build a tree house in your backyard, put up a new mailbox, paint your living room, or install a bathroom faucet, where w

As we’ve all learned by now, hope is not a strategy.Still, Lowe’s (LOW) Chief Executive Robert Niblock tried to evoke that feeling of hopefulness in announcing the company’s dismal

No one goes into Walmart (WMT) and asks to pay extra sales tax. Thus sales taxes are reasonable barometers for retail sales. This week we look at how taxes are doing in a period of economic recovery.

Yesterday, biz TV went ga-ga over Toll Brothers (TOL) order numbers and the “unbelievable” 6.9% cancellation rate. Similarly, on Tuesday Beazer Homes (BZH) reported a shockingly bullish p

In December 2008, at the height -- or nadir -- of the financial crisis, and at a time of massive bloodletting in the publishing industry, I got lucky and sold my first novel, Kapitoil, to HarperColli

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