My weekly podcast, After the Bell, is now available. This week — the lessons of defining moments. Plus, I talk my friend Allan Sloan at Fortune…

The pick of Ellen Degeneres as the next American Idol judge is being overshadowed today by the news that big record companies are suing her TV show…

One of the issues I'll be talking about on the podcast today is whether the big banks need to be dismantled and reorganized. As a supplement to…

I'll give the Treasury Secretary credit. He put himself out there last night. Mr. Geithner held a town hall meeting and took questions from…

You couldn't make this stuff up. Neighbors say an executive from Wells Fargo moved into a $12 million Malibu Beach home after the bank foreclosed…

I missed this when it came out a few days ago, but I thought it was worth mentioning. IBM's annual commuter pain index has some interesting data…

A film festival later this month in New York City has made The Great Recession its theme for this year. The entrants are a collection of short…

The chasm between US imports and exports grew by a 16% in July to $32 billion, according to the Commerce Department. While that sounds like a bad…

Today, the Census Bureau came out with its annual report on incomes, poverty and health insurance. I'll spare you the depression of reading…

President Obama made another push for health care last night, but is he making a mistake by focusing too much on that and not enough on the economy…