Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that the Senate will vote sometime this week on the House-passed bill to suspend the debt ceiling, allowing the Treasury to borrow whatever it needs to fund the government through May...

An extraordinary statistic tweeted by Idealab CEO Bill Gross from a Davos session he is attending: “The 6 members of the Walmart family have as much combined wealth as the entire bottom 1/3 of the United States.”...

The Japanese yen continues to tumble rapidly, as the new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moves forward with his yen devaluing policies, which includes possibly targeting a 2 percent inflation rate. But this has many people wondering if...

The 10 stocks that drove 93% of the entire S&P 500′s earnings growth in 2012 will only account for 33% of earnings growth in 2013, according to a report from Morgan Stanley. Check it out: SEE ALSO: 13...

Almost half of female executive directors are financially qualified, while 65 percent have a financial background, the study shows. This compares to just 26 percent of their male colleagues being financially qualified and 44 percent having a...

Have you noticed that it has become trendy to bash preppers?  For a long time the prepper movement was ignored, but now it has become so large that it is getting very difficult for the mainstream media...

TheRawStory A Yale study published Tuesday in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that people who used alcohol or tobacco in their youth are almost twice as likely to abuse prescription opiate drugs than those who only used marijuana. Researchers...

It’s finally going mainstream. Government spending isn’t growing like crazy. It’s shrinking. And It’s hurting the economy. Ben Casselman and Conor Dougherty at the WSJ (via Ben White) have a great look at how cuts in federal...

A new report by the Tax Justice Network, “The Price of Offshore Revisited,” shows that the amount of wealth held in tax havens has increased enormously since 2004, and confirms what I previously wrote about the huge cost to tax coffers of...

BusinessInsider In 1967, I was 22 years old and sitting in a movie theater watching Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. For my generation at that point, there is one word from that movie that will never be...