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

Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

Editor's Note: Matthew Beller is a former employee of the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He currently works for a private investment firm in Los Angeles, California

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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Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

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What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

This week, San Francisco is playing host to the annual Web 2.0 Summit, where tech giants and kings of social media discuss the future of online business and community. And on Tuesday, Twitter CEO and

Welcome to Minyanville’s quotes of the week, served up with some quotable historical context for your Friday enjoyment. “The amount of money people are paid has taken a big hit; not just