As America prepares to tuck into turkeys, Byrd became our longest serving lawmaker, Birds Eye is being bought by Blackstone (BX) and yesterday’s equity action was one for the birds. With h

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It’s becoming common knowledge that commodity-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have some basic design flaws that not only affect their performance but also have an impact on the very futures

Major sporting events are often sold as win-wins to local taxpayers. Bidding on a game usually comes with the promise of extra local taxable spending and the positive publicity that will help draw vi

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I don’t know where you’ll be this weekend, but you’ll find me on the soccer field. My oldest has a big tournament. Four games in all, and I can’t wait. Details to follow on Mo

I forgot to mention it yesterday, but over the weekend both of my kids were in a one-mile race -- my oldest finished fourth out of 63 kids in her age group and my youngest finished sixth of 43 kids i

They're the Batman super-villains of the music world. Cold and heartlessly cruel on their own, but with forces combined, they create an unmitigated flood of destruction, corruption, and evil that no

Gibney says:“There is a different, more robust approach to making peace in nasty places: deploy private military companies. Put them on retainer, and they’ll go where they’re p

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