In a surprise move, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a temporary delay Monday in the bankruptcy sale of Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat, saying it needed more time to decide on complaints that the government-engineered deal is unfair to some bondholders...
Riccardo Rebonato of the Royal Bank of Scotland and author of Plight of the Fortune Tellers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of measuring risk and making decisions and creating regulation in the face of risk and uncertainty...
President Barack Obama, in less than five months in office, kicked out the head of General Motors Corp., scored a majority stake in Chrysler LLC for the United Auto Workers and stiffened U.S. fuel-mileage standards...
From Mark Helprin's Digital Barbarism: Those who lack any but a materialist approach to life see both acquisition and de-acquistion, fine tuned, as the keys to a blessed state...
With the economy showing signs of recovery, fiscally conservative economists and Republican lawmakers are suggesting that the large unspent portion of the nearly $800 billion stimulus fund should be redirected to slash this year's nearly $2 trillion annual deficit...
Some of the world’s highest-profile economists and investors are warning that inflation may be on its way back and could hit double figures in the next five years...
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