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Investors who have loaded up on physical gold and other hard assets are encountering a problem: Where should they store the stuff? We look at the options.

We recently heard about an upscale British department store that has asked popular brands to create logos that exclude their names, thus reducing "visual clutter." This got us to thinking, are brand names really necessar...

New rules reinstate tax treatment for gifts to charity.

Poor returns and looming rules spur interest in alternatives to money-market mutual funds. We weigh the options.

Russia-- home to some of the craziest advertising you'll ever see -- has now taught the world a lesson on how to advertise meat. This ad, for Cherkashin meats, shows people jumping off their sofas and out of bath tubs in...

It is possible that the Dreamliner's batteries were overcharged, but to lift a grounding order, Boeing must demonstrate that it can prevent similar episodes from happening.

The freshmen in the 113th Congress are, on average, wealthier than the incumbents. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the median net worth of the 94 incoming lawmakers at the end of 2011 was $1,066,515. But...

Ezra's hosting MSNBC's "The Last Word" tonight at 10 p.m. The cast of "The Wire," here's where they all are now. Not good: "A rough calculation of current rates of soil degradation suggests we have about 60 years of tops...

Medical diagnostics company LipoScience is reviving its plans for an initial public offering of common stock but scaling back the amount of money it hopes to raise from investors. In...

The U.S. Mint has stopped selling its 2013 American Eagle silver bullion coins.

Some of the more outrageous items surrendered to TSA, during just one weekend at LAX.

A bold deal by the owner of IntercontinentalExchange to acquire the New York Stock Exchange shows how technology is transforming the world's markets.

The author of "The Laws of Subtraction" says that success often comes from knowing what to leave out of a project or situation.

The Federal Reserve's new, more aggressive monetary policy has opponents within the central bank, but they don't have history on their side.

A three-day weekend marking the start of U.S. President Barack Obama's second term as well as the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. got under way Saturday with a day of service by volunteers around t...

Two sisters with experience in the film and toy industries -- but not in the fashion or tech fields -- started an online company that lets customers design their own shoes.

Readers respond to "Over 50, and Under No Illusions" (Jan. 13).

A reader responds to "Funds Aren't Wielding Much Power Over Executive Pay" (Mutual Funds Report, Jan. 13).

Readers respond to "Above the Debt Ceiling, Boehner Might Find a Blue Sky" (Economic View, Jan. 13).

Kon Leong, the chief executive of ZL Technologies, an e-mail and file archiving company, says creativity comes from knowing how to reach outside of your own borders.

Chopping the biggest banks into pieces would better protect the nation's taxpayers, says the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Whatever their position on gun control, many investors own shares of firearms makers at least indirectly, through their mutual and exchange-traded funds.