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Susan Braig's finances were destroyed by high medical bills. Getting an Obamacare policy is her first step, an analyst says.First, the cancer threatened Susan Braig's life, then it wrecked her finances.     

Storm chasing photographer Mike Hollingshead spends his days traveling up and down the Midwest in search of America’s biggest and baddest storms.  He’s seen every kind of tornado, supercell, lightning, and thunder s...

The reality TV couple Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick have put their "dramatically re-imagined" Los Angeles-area home up for sale for $3.499 million. They bought the house in 2010 for $1.7 million, but a lot has gon...

Measure kicks in when 80,000 gallons of fluid is injected into rock; but many potential fracking firms will use gas, foam or gel insteadIllinois' new law regulating horizontal hydraulic fracturing doesn't kick in until 8...

Skokie businessman Peter Troost, given 1 year and 1 day, sees tremendous 'disparity in sentencing' for same offenseA week after the billionaire creator of Beanie Babies received two years' probation for tax evasion, inma...

Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte, has sold his stake in the company, which hails itself as Russia’s largest social network.  Durov wrote on his VKontakte page that he had sold 12 percent of the company to Ivan T...

In January, business at the 101 Livestock Market's cattle auction on California's Central Coast is usually slow. The busy season is normally in June or July, when ranchers have had time to fatten their animals for weeks ...

Here's a look at four of the top issues Oregon lawmakers are likely to confront when they begin a five-week legislative session on Feb. 3:

The small, remote-control helicopters hovering in a conference room took on the look of fun flight at a hobby store. But when mounted with video cameras and with further development by a Jacksonville company and others, ...

Brainfood @ The LAB: This event features an indepth discussion with Jose Vargas, co-founder of Healthcare.com and The People Fund, and angel investor and entrepreneur Marco Giberti, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, The LAB Miam...

A Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. brokerage unit has received one key regulatory clearance to begin operation, a step forward in its effort to launch a market to trade shares of private companies.

The outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve has been credited with pulling the nation up from the brink of a depression, but has also overseen one of the greatest surges in economic inequality in U.S. history.WASHINGTON...

Procter & Gamble says a growing preference for shaggy styles is trimming razor sales.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Chrysler dealers from around the U.S. seem revved up by the purchase of the U.S. carmaker by Italy's Fiat SpA.     

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Will the snowy New York City area really reap an estimated $600 million economic boost from the Super Bowl? Probably not.

Small businesses have plenty to learn from Target's blunder.

With all the worries facing the stock market, Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini seized on the China/Japan rift as one of the most worrisome.

Despite the claims of shale oil boosters, the era of cheap energy is over and it's likely to weigh on economic growth in the years ahead.

I recently got the following question: “Last year I paid $1,000 to someone to build my website. But his business is an LLC. I heard that I do not have to send a 1099-MISC form to a corporation. So I have no requirement...

Call it Crony Capitalism, or the 1% versus the 99%, or the the tension between Wall Street and Main Street: One of the major themes in America today is how the wealthy use their money and position to influence policy and...

Stocks are falling because of brewing troubles in emerging markets. And those troubles are the result of economic ignorance: too many central bankers don't know how to defend their currencies, which are under attack. If ...