The people who pay attention to weekend box office reports usually have some financial stake in what comes out on top.
Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig’s Merry Band of Party Poopers
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Duped Dads Fight Back
It was the lawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant . The Romans, however, didn’t have access to genetic testing.
GM’s Pension: A Ticking Time Bomb for Taxpayers?
General Motors Corp. may no longer be the world’s biggest automaker, but it still operates the country’s largest pension fund.
‘The Wish and Will of the People Are Not Stoppable’
On Oct.
Nation: He Has a Passion for Silver
It cost him billions and nearly caused a panic It had to be a Texan, of course. Who else could head a small investment group that loses $1 billion on paper in a single day and still has perhaps $2 billion left after that?
Why Sports in LA Are in Disarray
On April 20, Major League Baseball took control of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a team whose overleveraged owner is going through a humiliating public divorce and steering the franchise towards bankruptcy. The Dodgers’ financial situation had been so dire that last week Frank McCourt, who is fighting for ownership of the team with his estranged wife, Jamie, needed a $30 million loan from Fox, the team’s television partner, to make payroll.
Divorce and Taxes: Five Things to Know When Filing Returns
The Great Recession turned out to be quite good at keeping troubled unions together. Divorce rates fell every year in America during the economic downturn
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Legacy as Governor of California
Appropriately, the race to become the next governor of the richest state in the Union could well be a treatment for a Hollywood script: a multimillionaire taking on the wily scion of a political dynasty to succeed one of the biggest box-office stars of all time as governor of California. On Tuesday, Californians will decide if Democrat Jerry Brown, the current attorney general, a former governor himself and three-time presidential candidate, or Meg Whitman, the eBay billionaire who has spent a record $140+ million on her campaign, will succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger
A Brief History of Bretton Woods System
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. dollar has enjoyed a unique and powerful position in international trade.
Blessed Barons
Staring out from their photographs, they are the archetypal tycoons: one a steely-eyed Scot with a spade-shaped white beard; another a craggy, Ichabod Crane look-alike; the third a fat cat in striped pants with a watch chain strung across an ample paunch. Today they have the look of fossilized reactionaries, but these turn-of-the-century titans were men who lived in booming, anarchic times and thrived on them.