Social media could take us in all kinds of directions. I'm about to show you one direction it's taking people in droves right now. I'm not…

This isn't an antitrust blog post. Today, Google launched the world's biggest game of Monopoly. Google Maps is the game board, and you can buy…

At a speech in Frankfurt today, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said some investment banking products are socially useless. And so are…

The former CEO of Lehman Brothers won't talk about what happened a year ago, but he will tell the press that his mother loves him. Plus, a test…

The amount of credit outstanding plummeted in July by $21.6 billion. That's a record. It's the sixth straight month Americans have reduced their…

You've probably read that the price of gold surged past $1,000 an ounce today to its highest level in 18 months. It's a clear sign that investors…

That's the subtitle of Wall Street 2, Oliver Stone's sequel to one of the greatest business movies of all time. Stone starts shooting this week in…

Here's an argument for why bailing out Wall Street might've been a horrible idea — the bankers have little incentive to be careful. They're…

Good morning. Hope you had a great holiday weekend, but now it's back to work. From the sorry history of America's debt to women playing…

On this week's After the Bell podcast, I have some perspective on the employment report, the Fed's profits and the taxman. Plus, I talk to a guy…