Census takers who visit homes to collect census information are called enumerators. They are told to use any person who owns or rents the housing unit as the reference person and to list the ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually ...

The Detroit automaker's desperate bid to stave off bankruptcy is the latest chapter in a steady slide that began more than 20 years ago. (Fortune Magazine) -- Back in 2004, when it was still ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After two weeks of contentious and often emotional debate, the federal government's far-reaching and historic plan to bail out the nation's financial system was signed ...

He revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression -- and his own serious health problems. (Fortune magazine) -- How's this for a ...

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Even in the mute efficiency of international wire transfers, $540 million makes a noise when it lands in your bank account. To Kent Alexander, that sound was a thud--and in ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- "No, we are not in a trade war," chief White House economist Lawrence Summers declared when I raised the prospect with him two days after the Beijing regime lobbed U.S. auto ...

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels, and a Chinese black market. When US border agents raided the home of Song Shen Zhen, they ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Wall Street was a vastly different world Monday from what it looked like just days earlier, following one of the most harrowing days in the history of U.S. financial ...

California resident Gerilynn Aflleje was horrified when her 4-year-old Siberian Husky mix was killed by a local animal shelter over $180 in fees that she couldn't afford. Her dog, Chunk, had been ...

How would I mop up this mess? I have no magic cures, but I can offer a few modest suggestions. Profit Sharing If we taxpayers are going to subsidize Wall Street, as we're now doing, the Fed - or ...