Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? If so, then you may not be earning up to your full potential. ...more

September 20, 2008

The nation's largest wholesale power seller, Constellation Energy Group, whose stock has collapsed amid worries about liquidity and accounting issues, agreed on Thursday to be bought by a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for $4.7 billion. ...more

September 19, 2008

American International Group Inc. will be allowed to use $20 billion of assets held by its subsidiaries to provide cash needed for the troubled insurer to stay in business, New York Gov. David Paterson said Monday. ...more

September 16, 2008

Freddie Mac talked to investors this week about possibly buying its stock to raise much-needed capital but billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he passed on an opportunity to help the troubled mortgage giant. ...more

August 23, 2008

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Friday the economy continues to be in a recession, by his definition, and will continue to be for at least several months. ...more

August 23, 2008

Boxer DQ'd For Biting Opponent BEIJING - A light heavyweight boxer from Tajikistan was disqualified for biting his opponent on the shoulder during their Olympic quarterfinal bout Tuesday night. ...more

August 20, 2008

Despite misgivings, members of the state Cabinet voted 2-1 to pay $224 million to financier Warren Buffett in exchange for his pledge to buy up to $4 billion worth of state bonds in the event of massive property damage this hurricane season. ...more

July 30, 2008

It's unclear whether state officials will sign off today on the deal with financier Warren Buffett to shore up Florida's Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. ...more

July 29, 2008

each is ominously low - this much must be said on behalf of Robert Sullivan, long-shot candidate for Pasco County sheriff: He has an instinct for insurgency. ...more

June 24, 2008

"Good Guys & Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (And Everything in Between)" by Joe Nocera; Portfolio, 292 pages ($25.95) ...more

June 1, 2008