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David Bonior is a hungry entrepreneur bent on making money. David Bonior ? The former Michigan Democratic congressman, liberal pit bull, academic, antiwar firebrand and labor-union BFF has undergone an epiphany, making h...

Gurney's Resort & Spa in Montauk is getting a major revamp, with new owners overhauling the beachfront property that counts Robert De Niro as a neighbor. George Filopoulos and Lloyd...

Even with the proliferation of ‘How To Make Your Blog Pay’ stories, social media platforms, and clever online marketing and web analytics tools, creating a profitable blog is no mean feat.

The advertising platform fired its CEO, founder and chairman Gurbaksh Chahal Saturday night, two weeks after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and domestic violence charges for assaulting his girlfriend. Bill Lone...

One of the big questions surrounding the recent revelation of an alleged phone conversation in which Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is accused of making racist remarks was how the Clippers players would respo...

Photo credit: Daily Transformations Stephen Poff via Photopin It's not you it's me. While that might be the easiest way to wiggle out of a personal relationship, when it comes to someone whose been paying you money on a ...

More stimulus is coming and when combined with rising wages, it should push inflation higher. But this risks a bond market rout.

The Weekly Oil and Gas Follies – Volume 43, April 28, 2014

Below is the April 26th "Thoughts from the Frontline" newsletter, republished in full.

Edward Pick, Morgan Stanley's equities boss, has played a key role in the firm's turnaround since the financial crisis. His unit has emerged as one of the bank's biggest growth engines.

Truck drivers at the ports are set to hold a 48-hour strike starting Monday. They say they're denied fair pay and protections because companies don't classify them as employees.In their largest demonstration yet, truck d...

Africa's rising economic star is in danger of burning out from even a modest contraction in China's economy as that country's demand for natural resources decreases, warns the International Monetary Fund. After a meteori...

Now 92 years old, Stanley Ho dominated Macau’s gambling industry for decades with relatively little business beyond its shores.  Today, his eldest son Lawrence has global growth in his sights.

The French economy minister said economic sovereignty was at stake and that Siemens - Alstom's German rival - was making an offer of its own.

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Writing in Project Syndicate, Hans Werner Sinn, Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich, bewails the continuing growth of sovereign debt in the Eurozone. He claims that because the European...

Gov. Gary Herbert has signed eight bills to clear Utah's murky wintertime skies.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Palestinian president on Sunday called the Holocaust "the most heinous crime" of modern history, voicing a rare acknowledgment of Jewish suffering shortly before Israel held its annual memorial for ...

Most of the tools we use for communication at work simply aren't that great. Email can feel overwhelming. Messages that don't feel that important can build up until unread messages can number in the dozens, or worse — ...

Earlier I wrote about how more and more people are calling for a ban on banking, and how that's not quite as crazy sounding as it seems. Under their vision, there would still be entities called banks. But they'd have a r...

I helped all of these tech startups get off the ground and as soon as they closed their seed funding they came back to me and said, "Hey, we need people who understand how to work in startups."