They’re baaaaaaaack! Bella, Edward, Jacob, and the cast of the vampire romance The Twilight Saga: New Moon are expected to take a big bite from movie theater box offices this weekend. And if th

When my kids were little, my wife and I would tell them: “Trust is like a LEGO tower. It takes a long time to build it up, but only an instant to knock it down.”I was reminded of this tod

Surprise! It's Christmas! (again...) Christmas always seemed to surprise me when I was first living on my own. It would be about this time of year I realized that I needed to spend a large sum of mon

Getting kicked down stairs at a small home-improvement company made Kenneth Langone rich and has saved millions of do-it-yourselfers big bucks.In 1978, the legendary investor got into a tiff with the

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

Just when bank executives appear near the peak of this mountain of populist rage, another landslide sends them tumbling back down again. This week has produced several setbacks, and it’s still

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The United States, long an exporter of popular culture, may be exporting obesity to Europe, Asia, and Africa thanks to strong fast-food sales led by McDonald’s (MCD).The World Health Organizati

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

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