Markets applaud and the deal buys time, but economists fear it lacks the firepower to ease the crunch over the long term.
The Libyan leader had reportedly hidden away $200 billion before he died -- more than Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim combined. If he had it, was it really his?
Two supermarket chains and Macy's give the biggest chunk of pre-tax profits to charity. But add it up another way, and Wal-Mart and Goldman Sachs rise to the top.
The nation's economic malaise has hit small businesses hard. But not all have been equally affected. Here are publicly traded companies with impressive growth in earnings, sales and return on investmemt.
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain -- the frontrunner, according to some polls -- has proposed a major overhaul of the U.S. tax system. What would it mean to taxpayers and the economy?
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That city is home to a mutual fund industry built on selling products and collecting fees while delivering unimpressive returns.
Average investors suckered into this year's IPOs for closed-end funds should be protesting in the streets. Their losses are huge on what were always bad bets.
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