Greg Burns

The soon-to-be-released doomsday movie "2012" is looking like a box-office winner, but not as big a hit as "Twilight 2." And as for "Pirate Radio," a tale of rogue disc...

Milk at $2 a gallon, gasoline at $3 and gold selling at how much per ounce? These are turbulent times in the commodity markets, as a weak dollar and uncertain...

Here's the good news for Timothy Geithner, who traveled through Chicago last week speaking bluntly about the bad economy: Hard times can spell opportunity for Treasury secretaries. Alexander Hamilton had...

With gross domestic product soaring at a higher-than-expected 3.5 percent annual rate, it's practically official: The recession is over. But just wait till next week. The first Friday in November...

In New York the other day, a debtor drove 10 city blocks with a repo man clinging to the hood of her car. When the police finally intervened, he climbed...

For years, Chicago lost its wealth and population as people with money moved out. Some headed to the Sun Belt, and some to the collar counties for bargain homes. Away...

When CME Group paid $8 billion for the Chicago Board of Trade a little more than two years ago, Wall Street didn't worry too much about the price. Exchanges were...

If Varnador Sutton can do it, you can too. Or at least you get that impression from the case of the Indiana man who out of nowhere started billing the...

This is a record year for Trainor Glass Co., but next year won't be. Or the year after. Or, God forbid, maybe even the year after that. "Our company is...

Almost two years after the economy collapsed, practically no one has been thrown in the clink, and now former Enron Corp. boss Jeffrey Skilling may be handed a get-out-of-jail-free card....