This holiday season, J.C. Penney (JCP) CEO and Chairman Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department store chain, and he's ready to battle

Forget the statistical analysis, chatter from the guru of the minute, and the price of oil or gold, because we’re in a Mother Goose economy.The author of nursery rhymes summed up our current fi

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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