As pundits and politicians rush to sew the year up into a neat little bundle, we decided to look at 2012 from a slightly different angle. Here is our list of the year's worst bets -- six developments that seemed like sure things in January, but were bust by December.
Birthdays are times for giving gifts, but what does one buy the country that has everything? Something BIG, of course. As we mark this 236th national birthday, DailyFinance decided to take a look back at America's biggest gifts to itself.
Stocks of hospital companies rose sharply Thursday after initial reports said the Supreme Court had upheld the individual insurance requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The U.S. Supreme Court began to consider the constitutionality of a California law that would ban retailers from selling violent videogame titles to minors. The law, first proposed in 2005, has already been ruled unconstitutional by a lower court.
