Wall Street Journal

An Ivy League degree doesn't mean much at the top rung of the corporate ladder, according to a survey by executive recruiter Spencer Stuart. Most of the CEOs at the...

Golf, unlike most everything else, is by and large scandal-free. What are golf's secrets? Talk to people around the sport, and you get a sense of the structural elements that...

Seniors who need a little extra help but aren't ready to move into a retirement home have a new option: They can let the home come to them. Looking to...

Financial institutions that issue credit and debit cards with a MasterCard logo will soon start picking up the tab for small-business cardholders whose plastic is used without their permission. MasterCard...

The McMansion has been supersized. Even as economists debate whether discounts on some high-end homes signal a broader softening in the housing market, one indicator continues to rise: The biggest...

It's today's solution to the problem of the overflowing basement: Send it all to storage. One in 11 American households now rents a space in a self-storage facility, according to...

Mortgage lenders are continuing to loosen their standards, despite growing fears that relaxed lending practices could increase risks for borrowers and lenders in overheated housing markets. Novel loan products have...

At 61 years old, Bill Klenner works hard at staying youthful, lifting weights three times a week, eating right and going to bed early. But until recently, there was one...

Perched on a hill and surrounded by forests and hay fields sits an imposing brick structure that one visitor called "the scariest building in North America." It's the former Danvers...

In 2003, Tom and Beth Galati built their dream house -- a frontier-style four-bedroom cabin in Mt. Jackson, Va. Like most log homes, it arrived in a kit -- in...