As Hurricane Sandy began tearing up the East Coast, thousands evacuated their homes, schools closed, and millions of businesses and government offices told their workers to stay home. But a few employers did not: the Supreme Court, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Home Depot, Lowe's, and the U.S. Postal Service.
Each year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla) puts out his Waste Book, pointing out federally funded programs he considers especially absurd. They're the funniest -- and strangest -- things paid for with taxpayer dollars. Think you'll recognize the real weirdness? Take our quiz to find out.
Blame the government or blame the economy, but Americans should also blame themselves for their declining net worth. We waste over half a trillion dollars each year -- and that's just for areas with available data. And what do we waste that money on? Read on ...
Make no mistake about it: come Thursday morning, there will be a winner. If Romney wins, he will change the narrative of this election and give his flagging campaign some much-needed energy. If Obama wins, he has all but sealed up his re-election. If it is a draw, Obama wins because with so little time remaining Romney needed to do more than draw even.
In How Booze Built America, Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs mixes little-known history with economic analysis, puns and many tasty beverages to explain how the American story is really the tale of one nation's love affair with alcohol. Here are a few of Rowe's favorite high points.
Over the past few years, the benefits that America offers its citizens have become the center of a huge debate. But who actually qualifies for benefits, and how are they designed to work? If you're interested in where entitlement spending goes, take a peek at our little quiz.
Americans are not happy with the government. But for the first time in a long while, it is not the most hated industry in the country. That honor now belongs to the oil and gas industry as a result of climbing prices at the pumps and the BP oil spill still fresh in many people%u2019s minds.
Forget flags and fireworks: When it comes to things that really hold America together, few things beat the little scraps of green and black paper that we keep in our pockets. They pay for our necessities and feed our dreams, but how much do you really know about them?
Herb and Dorothy Vogel never earned much money, but together, they amassed them one of the most significant modern art collections in the country. Now, you can't replicate the Vogel's genius, but you could learn from them -- because the rules they followed apply just as well in the investment world as the art world.
What if we could travel into the future to see what products, concepts, and ideas survived and which ones drifted away? Here are our best Doc Brown highlights of what we'll have lost by the year 2025.
With the average wedding costing $27,000 (not including the honeymoon), savvy couples are hunting for savings wherever they can find them. These 10 tips won't make your day any less magical, but they will make a lot of the bill disappear.
For nearly 30 years, Leah Purcell ran the Spindletop Refuge for pit bulls in Willis, Texas. Last week, state workers found hundreds of dogs living in inhumane conditions there. The dogs have been removed, but the question remains: Spindletop took in an estimated $861,000 a year. Where did all that money go?
In the final installment of director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, everything changes for billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne, which got us thinking: Which real-life business leaders could step into Batman's formidable shoes?
An Ohio family rummaging through the attic of a long-deceased grandfather stumbled across 700 century-old baseball cards. The surprisingly mint condition collection includes the cards of Ty Cobb, Connie Mack, Cy Young, and that ultimate rarity, Honus Wagner.
The average U.S. CEO makes 380 times what his employees earn. Here in America, we read statistics like that and grumble. Over in France, they've decided to do something about it.