Cyber Gangs Hit Healthcare Providers

Organized cyber thieves that have stolen millions from corporations and schools over the past few months recently defrauded several health care providers, including a number of non-profit organizations that cater to the disabled and the uninsured.

Fed Held Back as Evidence Mounted on Subprime Loan Abuses

The visits had a ritual quality. Three times a year, a coalition of Chicago community groups met with the Federal Reserve and other banking regulators to warn about the growing prevalence of abusive mortgage lending.

Cuba Pins Hopes on New For-Profit Farms

CEIBA DEL AGUA, Cuba -- Faced with the smothering inefficiencies of a state-run economy and unable to feed his people without massive imports of food, Cuban leader Raúl Castro has put his faith in compatriots like Esther Fuentes and his little farm out in the sticks.

Germany's Merkel Reelected, Will Form New Coalition

BERLIN, Sept. 27 -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel secured a decisive victory in federal elections Sunday, winning enough votes to form a new ruling coalition that should give her a freer hand to govern and provide support for closer ties with Washington.

Zombie Stocks Can Lure Casual Investors Into Danger

To prove how astonishingly easy it is to make a dimwitted investing move, I logged into my online brokerage account the other day and bought stock. I have made dumb buys before -- who hasn't? -- but this time I was practically betting on a horse that could no longer gallop.

The Color of Money: Overdraft 'Protection' Is Anything But

Who's the greater villain: the guy at a bar who has one drink too many or the bartender who sold him that drink?

In Britain, Tough Times Spawn Alternative Currencies

LONDON -- Throughout Britain, people are hanging on to their hard-earned pounds, scrimping and saving as they ride out the recession.

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It's Getting Easier to Find the Definition of 'Parasitic' Online

Ostensibly, this is the story of dictionary Web sites and their impending demise. But really, this is the story of the oxpecker. I ask your patience while I get ornithological.

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Union Chief Pushes Tough Line on Trade

As visitors to this week's G-20 summit in Pittsburgh are frequently reminded, the host city has bounced back from the collapse of its steel industry in the 1980s.

Afghan Insurgents' Diverse Funding Sources Pose Challenges

KABUL -- The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement's money supply.

Armey's Army Marches Against Obama

Richard K. Armey has been an economics professor, House leader, corporate lobbyist and a blunt-talking critic of his fellow Republicans. Now, at the vanguard of a loosely-knit band of opponents of President Obama's agenda, Armey has morphed into a role Obama himself held years ago: a grass-roots...

G-20 Grabs Bigger Role in Global Economy

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25 -- The leaders of the 20 largest economies officially anointed themselves the steering committee of the global financial system and reached a series of agreements Friday aimed at navigating the world out of recession and onto the path of recovery

Shareholders Say Yes to Executive Pay Plans, Review Shows

If investors were furious over executive bonuses, that anger failed to materialize in the ballot boxes at this year's annual meetings.