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Well, here's a fact. The collapse of the Silk Road — the online drug buying bazaar whose alleged founder was arrested earlier this month — has not destroyed Bitcoin, the digital currency that was used on the site. In...

The markets didn't do too much today. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 15,392.2, -7.4, -0.0% S&P 500: 1,744.6, +0.1, +0.0% NASDAQ: 3,920.0, +5.7, +0.1% And now the top stories: For what it's worth, the U.S. stock markets a...

As I have discovered, most entrepreneurs have a hard time discerning what is important to put into a bio and what is not. For this reason, I have without fail tossed out the working bios of incoming clients, writing bran...

Rihanna loves sharing intimate photos of herself on Instagram, but not everyone is a fan.  Over the weekend, the singer performed in Abu Dhabi.  Afterward, she posed for a few photos outside of popular tourist attracti...

A financial advisor and an insurance agent may sell similar products, but they can have very different motives. The worst agents will be beholden to their company's profit margin more than they are to your financial well...

Many of our lawmakers think their job is about scoring points or making jokes. We need problem solvers in the U.S. Congress, not tax protesters from the right or would-be comedians from the left. Apparently, dysfunction ...

Troubled lender Co-operative Bank says previous plans to boost its capital by 1.5 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) will likely change as it holds talks with various creditor groups.

Chinese authorities have banned satellite broadcasters from buying the rights to more than one foreign-made program per year in a bid to tackle "vulgar" and "excessive" entertainment in Chinese television.

Here's the problem Apple hopes to cure tomorrow when it unveils its new 2013 model iPads. While the iPad is still the biggest brand in the tablet market it's essentially being nibbled to death by competitors. Samsung is ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Discover Financial Services' net income fell 8 percent in the third quarter, as the lender set aside more funds to cover potential loan losses.     

The Dow Jones industrial average edged lower as investors digested the latest third quarter earnings reports from companies. McDonald's slipped after it reported revenue that fell short of analysts' expectations. Toymake...

Sid Yudain, the founder of the long-standing Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, died Sunday morning at the age of 90. "He loved that paper," said Lael Yudain, his wife. "He used to say that when he started, the Hill was a...

Discover Financial Services' net income fell 8 percent in the third quarter, as the lender set aside more funds to cover potential loan losses.

Scandal-tainted megabank JPMorgan Chase is losing legal ground in the wake of its multi-year crime wave (if the term "crime wave" seems harsh, we invite you to review the evidence here, here, and here.) But in the wake o...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City-area prosecutor was appointed Monday to reinvestigate allegations levied by a 14-year-old girl who said she was sexually assaulted by an older classmate who piled her with alcohol i...

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The opening of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the insurance marketplaces now open to people in 36 states, has been something of a disaster. Three weeks in, people are still struggling to purchase insurance through th...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- One of Zimbabwe's wealthiest entrepreneurs said he has built a massive business empire by never paying a bribe to officials or even presidents who solicited for them.     

The Bishop of Limburg in Germany has become the "Bishop of Bling" after touching up his official residence with things like a $20,000 bathtub and marble floors, according to ABC News. Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst...

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) warned his attorney general that he should not publicize his personal opposition to the state's new voter identification laws while also defending them in a lawsuit brought up by th...

A British court has lifted an injunction preventing the Wall Street Journal from publishing the names of traders who may be implicated in the rate-rigging case involving the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR.

In an effort to shift public focus away from the Affordable Care Act's glitch-filled rollout, President Barack Obama said Monday that some states have already benefitted from the law.