Thanks to that country’s emerging middle class, the Shanghai stock exchange has become one of the hottest capital markets in the world - and the most dangerous.

INDIAN ISLAND, Maine - The relationship between the Penobscot Indian Nation and state government, already at perhaps its sourest point in years, apparently won't be improving anytime soon.

Addiction exposes the deepest forms of physical and psychological dependency. It is typically considered a personal affliction or an individual failing. But the deadly solicitations of any addictive substance -- cocaine, alcohol, nicotine -- rely upon a s

While most of the financial world prays that the market has bottomed, another kind of bottoming out is necessary. And that is our own co-dependence with the addict that Wall Street has become.

The Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating trading in oil futures to determine whether the surge in prices to record levels is the result of manipulation or fraud. They might want to take a look at wheat, rice and corn futures wh