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Pensions for top executives rose an average of 19% in 2008, with more than 200 executives seeing pensions increase more than 50%, according to a Wall ...
BloggingStocks | Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
Economist and president of a research firm that bears his name, Andrew Smithers (not related to the Smithers of Mr. Burns fame) is saying our on-fire ...
nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
JERUSALEM As the Obama administration tries to broker a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is a dark truth lurking: force has produ...
AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reinstating the sex trafficking and forced labor conviction of a man dubbed the "S&M Sveng...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The New York Times takes a look at Citigroup's hiring of Richard F. Hohlt -- a former lobbyist with a controversial past who will now advise the volat...
newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business
Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the two giants of the industry, are still around despite causing the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars by badly r...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business
As the big three credit rating agencies -- Moody's Investor Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings -- prepare to face the scrutiny of the House ...
Financial Times | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
How many financiers do you think ended up in jail after America's Savings and Loans scandals? The answer can be found in a fascinating, old report fro...
bloomberg.com | Lynn Thomasson and Adria Cimino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business
Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who did what Wall Street analysts advised last March has only losses after the biggest stock market rally in seven decad...
wsj.com | ZACHARY KARABELL | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
Despite grim predictions, most major U.S. companies have reported positive earnings for the second quarter of 2009. Given how wrong past predictions h...
ft.com | Joanna Chung and Aline van Duyn in New York | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
Credit rating agencies would face a raft of new disclosure rules and restrictions but would not be forced to overhaul their business models under prop...
nytimes.com | LESLIE WAYNE | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO -- The nation's largest public pension fund has filed suit in California state court in connection with $1 billion in losses that it says w...
Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long attacked for awarding pristine ratings to mortgages and other securities that proved worthless, credit rating agencies were ...
wsj.com | KERRY E. GRACE and KEVIN KINGSBURY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business
U.S. home prices continued their multiyear tumble in March, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, as the downdraft shows no near-term ...
AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up for the year. And for once, it was the housing market that sent stocks soaring. The S&P 500, c...
bloomberg.com | Nick Baker | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should sell U.S. stocks following the steepest rally since the 1930s because earnings are likely to keep weakening, ...
Minyanville | Cory Bortnicker | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business
I'll admit it - a few weeks ago, I bought a $1 scratch ticket. I thought, "Why not?" I ended up winning $7, and proudly announced the news to the Miny...
Ellis Weiner | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics
We are witnessing, not so much the collapse of the Republican Party, as its slide into insanity. What was the GOP's great accomplishment last week? A show of "unity" enough to block the first stimulus package.
Alan Schram | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
Throwing taxpayers' good money into that sink hole called the US auto industry will be tantamount to a transfer of wealth from tax payers to GM employees.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
On Friday, the Huffington Post debunked a series of charges made by conservative activists linking Sen. Barack Obama to the community organizing group...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.09.2008 | Entertainment
Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.
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wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business