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Standard & Poor's has downgraded Spain's government bonds to just one notch above junk status. See how different credit ratings agencies rate countries worldwide• Get the data• US debt ceiling analysed•...

Efforts are growing to market to the fan-girls of the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy and other genres typically dominated by men.

Of all the specialized tax rules for unique entities, the federal tax rules governing Native American tribes may be least understood. The only contact many Americans have with Native Americans is via Indian c...

Erike Mayo was a contestant in the 2008 edition of the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge. Mayo is currently in the business of helping other businesses getting off the ground.

More than a third of the UK's top online retailers could be breaking consumer laws and must be changed, the Office of Fair Trading says.

Want a car that's cute and likable, cheap and cheerful? Look no further… Whoa, what's that? It's where you'd expect the handbrake to be, but it doesn't feel like a handbrake. It's round, and smooth, it's a mouse, t...

There is nothing virtuous about selfishness and there is nothing objective about Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy, which is little more than a sly attempt to whitewash her own flaws.

In the impact investing industry -- where funds, investors and social entrepreneurs consider an investment's potential social and environmental impact along with its financial return...

PHILADELPHIA — The FBI is reporting an unusual heist of some newly designed $100 bills that aren't going into circulation until next year. Agent Frank...

As the housing market begins to post signs of recovery, one precocious teen isn't letting anyone stand in the way of her shot at turning...

While it seems unlikely we can 'control' when we have an insight, it's now very clear that we can dramatically increase the likelihood that an insight emerges. The trouble is, we have to get used to letting our non-consc...

It's a huge symbolic moment as grassroots labor activists take on America's largest, resolutely anti-union private employer The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so...

Employers are looking for talent with the right skills to fill open positions and bring value to their company. We all make mistakes and a candidate's actions in the past shouldn't hold them back from achieving success i...

This is a guest post by Craig Birk, director of portfolio management at Personal Capital.

Mitt Romney's campaign for president dragged private equity into the public eye and turned the harsh spotlight of a presidential race on its practitioners. So much for that whole "private" thing.

Lord Turrner was spot on and in line with the pessimism that has been coming from the Bank of England, the Treasury and government ministers When Sir Humphrey Appleby wanted to scare Jim Hacker off a course of action, te...

A couple years ago, as Twitter was going from a tool beloved by early adopters to something regular people used, a vogue for social media policies swept newsrooms. Everyone from the Washington Post to CNN to the Wall Str...

Matthew Herper and Avik Roy discuss the new alignment between payors and providers.

Capping a spate of strong I.P.O. this week, Workday, the software company, opened 72 percent above its offering price of $28 in its debut on Friday, on heavy trading volume.

Why has it taken regulators years to bring an action against JP Morgan and the other banks whose mortgage-backed securities machine blew a hole in our economy we’re still trying to patch? Since the market collapse...

Stocks closed Friday flat after revenue from Wells Fargo disappointed investors, offsetting a jump in consumer sentiment to a five-year high.

Inequality is one of the biggest problems in America, but is rarely mentioned during the campaign. The Guardian travelled to West Virginia to see how residents think poverty plays in the election In a disused supermarket...