While scandalous millionaire bonuses and other offensive corporate payments have recently captured national attention, behind closed doors couples practice their own dubious compensation arrangements. Today we read about Robert Charlton, a cheating British husband that regularly made amends by giving his wife jewelry intended to assuage her pain for his...

The bonus is being targeted as a villainous currency, a material expression of uncontainable executive greed. How can Wall Street keep dispensing such rewards at the same time it's begging our government for financial support? How could Citigroup pay out $4 billion in bonuses when it lost some $19 billion...

The Shady Lady Ranch brothel does it but so does the Red Cross. Hotels, car dealerships, and Taco Bells are on it as well. They all trade in gas cards: 2008's timely incentive currency. Gas cards are not new but they seem to be multiplying into all kinds of transactions....

On September 11, 2001, Michelle and Clifton Cottom's 11-year old daughter Asia died on American Airlines flight 77 when hijackers crashed the plane into the Pentagon. She was heading to Los Angeles on a school trip. In a few weeks, the lawsuit they and the families of 41 other victims...

Mixing money with intimate relations can get you into serious trouble. Just consider some recent headline news: the World Bank's Paul Wolfowitz may be about to lose his job as a result of his involvement negotiating an excessive pay raise and promotion package for his companion. Before his tragic accident,...