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I don't know about you, but I like to think I'm a pretty level-headed guy. You almost have to be to survive in the corporate world for as long as I did. I may indulge in the occasional fantasy but, for the most part, I know where my feet are. Planted firmly on the ground.I've never been one to get all worked up over conspiracy theories, either. I know Google and the federal government know far more about us than they should, but I don't believe there's an alien cover-up in Area 51. I know that "Men In Black" and the "X-Files" aren't real. They're fiction.That's precisely why, if you'd told me years ago, say back in the '90s, that someday the IRS would solicit confidential information and use it to target Americans that leaned a certain way, and that same agency that already strikes fear into the heart of every working American would also be privy to our confidential health information and police the nation's entire health care system, I would have said, "You've got to lay off the Kool-...
Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management LP reported no position in MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) after last quarter disclosing it had accumulated nearly 1.6 million shares o...
The Senate voted Wednesday to give the main agency charged with implementing the 2010 health care law its first confirmed leader in seven years.Marilyn Tavenner, a n...
Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) drug Simponi received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for patients with hard-to-treat cases of ulcerative colitis.The injectable...
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. unloaded stakes in Archer Daniels Midland and General Dynamics , and initiated a position in Chicago Bridge & Iron , accordi...
The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a $1 billion initiative to fund innovations in federal healthcare programs aimed at cutting costs while improving the...
Despite constant refrains regarding compelling valuations , Chinese stocks and the corresponding ETFs got off to disappointing start this year. For most China ETFs, ...
After years of just trying to survive the down economy, small business owners are once again focused on growing, a new study finds.
Through the first four months of 2013, global exchange traded products inflows totaled $79 billion with a fair amount of that total going to traditional, market capi...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereThe Dow and S&P 500 roared to fresh all-time highs Tuesday in a broad rally that was led by the financial sector.Today's MarketsTh...
German pharmaceutical retailer Merck KGaA (MRK.XE) Tuesday said it expects to achieve the guidance it gave for 2014 already one year earlier, after reporting a solid...
C.R. Bard Inc. (BCR) has agreed to pay around $48.3 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that it gave kickbacks to doctors and other customers to buy the com...
Thinking of living abroad ? Join the club. Faced with a sluggish job market at home, a growing number of Americans are looking outside the country for career and gro...
French industrial gas provider Air Liquide SA (AI.FR) Friday said it bought a 73.3% stake in Australia's Healthy Sleep Solutions as part of a strategy to diversify i...
The Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health-care law in its entirety, a symbolic step since there is no c...
House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said he doubts that only low-level employees in the Cincinnati field office of the Internal Revenue Service are responsible fo...
U.S. stocks wobbled on Thursday as a midmorning selloff lured in sidelined retail investors."There is still a lot of money out there that needs to find a home. The g...
U.S. stocks mostly fell on Thursday, pausing after another record-setting session, as data had jobless claims hitting a six-week high and housing starts falling shar...
Boomers planning on relying on just Medicare to cover their health-care costs in retirement better think again. With health care costs rising two to three times f...
When I was a child, dreaming about being a veterinarian, I believed that my career would be determined by my passions. I thought that whatever made me the happiest w...
