By: PR Newswire
BOSTON and WASHINGTON - /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report finds that U.S. taxpayers subsidize excessive executive compensation by more than $20 billion per year. The report is available via the web at:...
By: IPS - Inter Press Service
Thalif Deen
The scarcity of water is posing a threat to the food supply, just as the agricultural sector is stepping up production in response to riots over food prices, growing hunger and rising malnutrition. A senior official of a World...
By: Los Angeles Times
Peter Y. Hong, Times Staff Writer
U.S. home prices continued to fall at a record pace through the first half of 2008, according to a major indicator released Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller U.S. national home price index fell 15.4% in the second...
By: Investor's Business Daily
DAVID HOGBERG
Existing-home and -condo sales rose more than expected in July, an industry group said Monday. But the number of unsold homes rose to an all-time high.
Home resales rose 3.1% last month to an annual rate of 5.0 million, the...
By: Newsday (New York)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contain the wrong ingredient. The warnings are voluntary - meaning there's no way to know...
By: Investor's Business Daily
JESSE EMSPAK
Socially screened funds offer a way for investors to match their dollars to their beliefs. But in the wake of missteps at Pax World Funds, a question for investors is how those funds make sure they invest the way they say they...
By: Investor's Business Daily
DONALD JAY KORN
To stimulate the sleepy housing market, President Bush signed an economic recovery act in late July. It includes an estimated $15 billion in tax incentives.
Among several tax breaks, the one projected to provide the most relief...
By: Christian Science Monitor
David R. Francis
Some 77 percent of Americans polled last year felt that corporate executives "earn too much." Most corporate boards apparently disagree. Last year, although the nation's economy was already in trouble, they gave the chief...
By: USA TODAY
Sue Kirchhoff
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -- Financial markets need to be more tightly regulated to prevent financial crises and quash perceptions that some firms are too big to fail and will be rescued by the government, central bankers and...
By: Investor's Business Daily
SCOTT STODDARD
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday emphasized concerns about sluggish growth and troubled credit markets while saying inflation should cool, suggesting the central bank will keep interest rates steady for some time.
By: The Economist
Everyone knows industry needs oil. Now people are worrying about water, too
"WATER is the oil of the 21st century," declares Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow, a chemical company. Like oil, water is a critical lubricant...
By: Los Angeles Times
Paul Roberts, Paul Roberts' newest book, "The End of Food
If you are searching for signs that today's high food prices won't last, the latest report on the meat industry isn't promising. In May, a distinguished panel of scientists and meat industry officials concluded that the current...
By: USA TODAY
Sue Kirchhoff
CLAREMONT, Minn. -- From his office window at the Al-Corn Clean Fuel ethanol plant, manager Randy Doyal watches a steady stream of trucks roll in, weighed down with grain. A decade ago, many of the delivery trucks were beat-up,...
By: USA TODAY
Julie Schmit
The Food and Drug Administration has approved use of irradiation on spinach and lettuce to kill dangerous bacteria, but companies may have a tough time selling the idea to consumers.
By: Investor's Business Daily
DONNA HOWELL
It's a gotcha of globalization. A firm can rise to the challenge of opening a foreign branch office, but then wind up in a fix when it's knocked out of work by a flood, border skirmish or tech snafu. IBM is betting $300 million...
By: Investor's Business Daily
PAUL KATZEFF
If mutual fund stock-picking were Olympic archery, Amana Growth would be aiming at a smaller bull's eye than most competitors. It won't invest in certain businesses. That's because the $738 million fund invests according to...
By: USA TODAY
Sue Kirchhoff
WASHINGTON -- The difference a year can make. In August 2007, as financial markets began to crumble under the weight of bad mortgage loans, Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Federal Reserve's annual gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyo.,...
By: PR Newswire
WASHINGTON -- The goal of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to make corporate accounting more transparent. In practice, a new Cato Institute study finds, the law's requirements have had the opposite effect.
By: Investor's Business Daily
J. BONASIA
The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a new idea called Idea -- short for interactive data electronic applications -- to help investors.
SEC Chairman Christopher Cox showed off the new electronic system for...
By: USA TODAY
Del Jones
At Marriott International, Chairman Bill Marriott has not only contributed the maximum $4,600 to Republican John McCain's presidential campaign, he's also an active McCain "bundler," who has raised between $100,000 and $250,000...
By: Newsday (New York)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In the mortgage industry they are called "liar loans" - mortgages approved without requiring proof of the borrower's income or assets. The worst of them earn the nickname "ninja loans," short for "no income, no job and [no]...
By: PR Newswire
NEW YORK -- Holding people accountable for results is the foundation of an organization's performance; it's management 101. Yet it appears there is a gap between knowing and doing.
A new study conducted by OnPoint Consulting (...
By: Los Angeles Times
If more than 1,400 people were sickened by a nationwide outbreak of salmonella, could a lawsuit be far behind? A Colorado man has sued Wal-Mart, claiming that he was sold a tainted jalapeno pepper even though the retailer leads...
By: Los Angeles Times
Walter Hamilton, Times Staff Writer
Stocks fell sharply Monday as investors once again questioned when the financial sector would be able to turn itself around. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 180 points. A blistering sell-off in shares of mortgage-finance...
By: Los Angeles Times
Mary Engel, Times Staff Writer
Most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic were due not to the virus alone but to common bacterial infections that took advantage of victims' weakened immune systems, according to two new studies that could change the nation's...
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