The business book of the year says America's role as financial kingpin is over. DOMINIC RUSHE reports from New York CRISIS be damned. Last Thursday's Business Book of the Year Awards was a jovial and well attended affair.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that financial markets are "considerably calmer" now than they were two months ago. He predicted the economy will rebound by the second half of this year. In a speech to business executives in Washington, Pau

EVERETT -- When it opens, Everett Riverfront will be one of the largest commercial developments in the city's history with a mix of shops and condos, a hotel, and a movie theater along the Snohomish River.

When I joined the investment business in 1980, interest rates were at 20%, the economy was in recession, inflation was in double-digits and financial assets were in a 15-year bear market. A magazine cover story had proclaimed “the de...

History can throw up some improbable villains. Take, for example, Bud Selig. It can be argued that America's, and the world's, woes would now be less had Selig, owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, in 1992 appointed George Bush, then the managi