A new book about the rise and fall of Ivar Kreuger, industrialist and financier extraordinaire of the 1920s, has arrived just in time.

The investment managers will pay $210 million for driving clients towards the Ponzi scheme

The split in the conservative movement widens as Rove enlists GOP billionaires to target the Tea Party

Gross Imaginary Product has exploded everywhere while real interest rates have been kept below zero

Obama's "crowd funding" plan does nothing to protect the vulnerable from being conned out of their savings

Golf is essential to the Trump brand

In Israel, a 79-year-old was crowned in a pageant that is being criticized as "macabre"

Pete Hamill's new novel "Tabloid City" is a cross between a murder thriller and a sentimental elegy to a lost time

Ellen and Patty engage in a love/hate battle that puts clawing and hissing to shame forever

Forbes Magazine called the host scary, a "demagogue." Then its owner got involved

You're scaring David Brooks.

I can't help it if her father went to prison. Now she's trying to con me and I won't have it

Deterrence is the idea behind "tough on crime" sentences for violent offenses. But what about economic homicide?

We'd all like a little revenge, after learning about the millions owed to the screw-ups who totaled the global economy. But there's more important work to be done.

The Associated Press nobly decides to abandon a term that's become synonymous with dog-whistle racism