|
|
|
|
|
The Washington Post Business and Economy section provides coverage and analysis of economic policy,business policy and financial news as it relates to Washington,D.C.,the federal government and individual agencies. Washington Post Business also offers video,discussions and blogs about major ...
|
Adapted from a recent online discussion. Harassed (?) by CEO: I just started a job that I love. A few weeks ago, I was at a conference, where I was approached by our CEO as I was walking back to my hotel room late at night. He was extremely drunk; I was not. The short version is that he asked me to...
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
TARP is horribly unpopular. The stimulus is pretty unpopular. But does that mean they were bad policies? Not according to a new paper by Mark Zandi, Moody's chief economist and a former adviser to both the McCain and Obama campaigns, and Alan Blinder, a Princeton economist who has served as vice...
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Insurers hold billions in federal death benefits in unprotected accounts |
|
The package arrived at Cindy Lohman's home in Great Mills, just two weeks after she learned that her son, Ryan P. Baumann, a 24-year-old Army sergeant, had been killed by a bomb in Afghanistan. It was a thick, 9-by-12-inch envelope from Prudential Financial, which handles life insurance for the...
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
He may be locked in combat with Wall Street and the Business Roundtable, but President Obama spoke nostalgically last week about the virtues of small business.
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Umbrella-liability policy can protect finances from costly lawsuits |
|
Q We have homeowners and auto insurance with $300,000 in liability coverage, but someone suggested that we get a $1 million personal-liability umbrella policy. Why would we need this much coverage ?
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Interview with Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund manager Jeff Tillinghast |
|
Joel Tillinghast is arguably the least-celebrated superstar in the fund business. Fidelity Low-Priced Stock, which he has run since December 1989, is the third-best-performing fund over the past 20 years (with an annualized return through May 31 of 14 percent). The unusual fund, which mainly buys...
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Maxine Waters will go to trial rather than settling potential ethics charges |
|
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has decided against settling potential House ethics charges for her role in helping to steer federal funds to a bank, choosing instead to proceed to a trial, a source familiar with the process said Friday night.
|
| 31/07/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Delta Air Lines will pay a $38 million fine to settle criminal accusations that the cargo unit of Northwest Airlines conspired to fix prices, the Justice Department said Friday.
|
| 31/07/2010 01:00 AM |
|
State and local consumer-protection agencies across the country should pool their limited resources and start an advertising campaign called "Gotcha."
|
| 01/08/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Born during the Depression in a northeast Louisiana plantation town of 3,000, Charles Wyly and his younger brother Sam have been inseparable since childhood: numbers 3 and 13 on the state-championship high school football team , business partners who turned ideas into billion-dollar companies,...
|
| 31/07/2010 01:00 AM |
|
Health insurer Coventry Health Care said Friday that its profit plunged in the second quarter after it set aside $278 million to cover the costs of a lawsuit against a Louisiana subsidiary.
|
| 31/07/2010 01:00 AM |
