Greg Burns

In times like these, it's hard to know who to like. So it was nice to see Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein step up to be a bad guy....

Another day, another few trillion dollars, and no guarantee the economy is on the mend. In a matter of hours Tuesday, the federal government took decisive steps toward funding a...

When retail giant Wal-Mart reports its earnings this month, don't be surprised if two words stand out: "private label," the cheaper store brands that typically thrive in economic slumps. And...

Friday morning's monthly employment report is almost sure to be bleak, with cuts in the hundreds of thousands -- again. From Corus Bankshares and Motorola to Kraft and Sara Lee,...

When a prominent senator describes them as "a bunch of idiots" and the president calls their pay practices "shameful," Wall Street big shots better run and hide, right? As it...

Not long ago, retailer Scott Schlieff opened his store one last time, just the way he has for years. He switched off the alarm, flipped on the lights and tuned...

This is Christie Hefner's last day in the office after two decades as chief executive of Chicago's Playboy Enterprises, and her departure brings a pair of new faces to the...

What America needs is another bad bank, and it may get one in the months ahead. This "bad bank" would be a creation of the Obama administration, conceived as a...

They came in a drumbeat: 20,000 jobs cut at Caterpillar, 8,000 at Sprint Nextel, 7,000 at Home Depot and 18,000 if Pfizer completes its purchase of Wyeth. After the stock...

When a bank issues a statement these days saying it absolutely can't imagine any circumstance that would require a government bailout, it raises an obvious question. How can the bank...