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If you ask me, Major League Baseball made a pretty significant scheduling snafu for this year's playoffs. No, it wasn't the change in home field setup that baseball introduced for the divisional round, where the...

LONDON (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext , the transatlantic exchange group, plans to launch a European trading platform early next year designed to boost volumes from small investors by offering them better prices, according to...

Pizza chain drops presidential debate promotion that offered pizza for life.

Two dominant schools of thought have emerged in the broadband policy arena. The first, represented by the views of Susan Crawford, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, is that there is not enough competition to ca...

The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group’s Youngstown soup kitchen so that...

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 7, Colorado's largest union representing 25,000 members in Colorado and Wyoming, endorsed Amendment 64 on Monday....

"My lawyer will probably kill me when I say this, but I went to a head shop and I bought some of that white lightning...

The Portuguese government has revealed details of its draft budget for 2013, one of the harshest in the country's recent history.

Prepare to be stunned. Recently, I took issue with news reports questioning the role of small business as a source of new jobs.  I summed it up with a remark from Jim Clifton, the Chairman of Gallup, from his new book...

Americans bought more cars and gasoline in September, while a gauge of consumer spending pointed to stronger economic growth than expected in the third quarter.

Perennial NFL Pro Bowler Ray Lewis, the heart and soul of the Baltimore Ravens, is out for the rest of the season with a torn triceps. The 37 year-old linebacker suffered the injury in a victory over the Dallas Cowboys o...

The housing crisis left banks with a very messy problem. Throw in a Libor scandal and the mess gets even uglier.

Business Day Live: Reverse mortgages are costing some older Americans their homes. | Sprint to sell a controlling stake to SoftBank of Japan. | A reversal in fortunes for high-speed trading firms.

Traffic, pollution and unemployment rates in these metropolises can add stress to the daily grind.

Researchers at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans (Oct 13-17) presented studies showing how stress, no matter its cause, alters brain circuitry in ways that can have long-term effects on mental health.

Yet one more bit of evidence in the continuing drip drip of data proving the 401(k) industry will continue to operate in ways that are not in the best interests of those it is supposed to be helping comes today courtesy ...

Chancellor is too worried about the bond market to heed advice from Krugman – and Brown-busting stimulus? Forget it Portes On the day the Nobel prize for economics was announced in Stockholm, a former winner was i...

Alvin Roth, this year's winner and matcher of medical residents (courtesy of Stanford University) There's a larger question here about why the scholarly world allows itself to be judged by secretive Scandinavian committe...

The time has come for workers in the UK and US to campaign in unison for economic alternatives This weekend, the British labour movement will be marching in London for a future that works. Two weeks later, in the United ...

Talk to auto executives, transportation professors and sustainability experts, and they’ll tell you these are what drivers can expect to see in the next 20 years.

Ever been to a party where you've gotten a bit loud or obnoxious, and your spouse gently touches your elbow, signaling that it's time to go?  Others might not even notice the gesture, but you appreciate the tender tug...

“Today the printed word is more vital than ever.  Now there is more need than ever for all of us to read better, write better and communicate better.”