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You would think an election this big would get a ton of media attention, especially on our side of the world — where 24-hour cable news struggles to fill the …

The fiscal cliff battles in Congress seem to have calmed down, but we shouldn’t be lulled into thinking though that the problem has gone away. We remain a nation that …

Ready… get set… trade! Speed trading — or high frequency trading (HFT), the preferred parlance of regulators — doesn’t operate that fast.  It operates much faster.  You read it right …

It’s difficult not to commiserate with Abe Gorelick.  In the April 3, 2014 New York Times profile of him in its Business Day section, the Boston ex-marketing executive is portrayed …

A Republican federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit that claimed Obamacare subsidies can only go to residents of a state with its own insurance market. The decision is a setback …

Samuel Wurzelbacher, the former conservative commentator who achieved some notoriety during the 2008 presidential election over a  question he asked candidate Barack Obama, has joined the United Auto Workers — …

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Mahatma Gandhi Are public figures more corrupt and depraved than they used to be? …

If you thought that The Same Old Song was just a sixties tune recorded by the Four Tops, you didn’t attend yesterday’s session of The House Committee of Financial Services …

There’s nothing sadder than an aging hipster, said comedian/polemicist Lenny Bruce. Little did he know his comment was spawning a cottage industry. There’s a band called Ageing Hipsters. A travel …

Asian markets are getting clobbered today, and the Japanese markets have officially reached “correction” territory. The contagion spread to US markets after manufacturing numbers missed projections; the numbers didn’t miss …