Cornel West, the Princeton Professor who strongly supported President Barack Obama on the campaign trail in 2008, has already previously expressed his disillusionment with what he says is the Obama administration's neglect of the poor and working class people in the United States while supporting the leaders of the nation's financial system.
New claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, but a rise in the four-week moving average to a six-month high indicated the labor market recovery will remain painfully slow.
Shares of LinkedIn Corp surged nearly 90 percent in their public trading debut on Thursday, a jump reminiscent of the heyday of investors' love affair with Internet stocks in the late 1990s.
Chief Executive Ben Verwaayen is preparing the next stage of telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent's development armed with a refreshed product portfolio and a slimmer cost structure.
There have been new developments surrounding the ongoing extra-marital scandal which broke out earlier this week involving Arnold Schwarzenegger and former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena.
Arnold seeks Maria's attention.
Across the U.S. and in places around the world, signs and newspaper ads have been warning that judgment day is coming on May 21, 2011.
John Lipsky—Acting Managing Director, International Monetary Fund delivered the following speech at Annual Meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee on May 19, 2011.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted that he impregnated a member of his household staff 10 years ago, while married to Maria Shriver and before running for California governor.
Mikael Hed is unrepentant about the 200 million minutes per day that people around the world fritter away playing Angry Birds, the iPhone game created by the company he heads.
LinkedIn’s IPO is priced at $45, which already gave it an incredible price-to-earnings ratio of 260. In the first day of trading, its shares more than doubled to $107 (at 11:53 a.m. ET), which takes the price-to-earnings ratio to more than 600.
Annie Jacobsen’s new book, AREA 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, for the first time, has revealed the history of America’s top secret military base. The book has interviews with scientists, engineers and pilots who have exposed what really happened in the Nevada desert.
U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday as signs of recovery in the jobs market were offset by weak data on housing and regional business conditions.
The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, but other data on home sales and regional factory activity suggested the economy remained on a moderate growth path.
LinkedIn shares, priced at $45 for the IPO, surged to almost $93 in the morning session of its first trading day, before settling down at $85 per share at 10:13 a.m. Eastern time.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) now facing sexual assault charges, was a frequent customer of a notorious Manhattan escort service, according to reports.
Deutsche Bank AG denied in court that it conspired to cause the collapse of German media mogul Leo Kirch's business empire that led to years of legal battles.
LinkedIn’s IPO debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LNKD.” Priced at $45 a share, the whole company is valued at close to $4.3 billion.
HSBC Holdings Plc , Europe's biggest bank, will find most of the $3.5 billion it wants to save by trimming staff and cutting less profitable operations outside of Asia, its chief executive said on Thursday.
These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.
Is it true that most Americans don’t own a passport?
People.com is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, has hired a divorce lawyer.
