The major credit bureaus keep a list of boldface names, consumer lawyers say, and those people get special help in fixing credit report mistakes.
Judy Johnson says she has had years of trouble because credit bureaus keep mixing up her records with Judith Johnson's.
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken from at John F. Kennedy International Airport, accused of attacking a hotel maid, the authorities said.
Labels proclaiming health benefits of foods almost shout out in the aisles of supermarkets. But shoppers, and regulators, have their hands full trying to sort it all out.
Ferrari’s chairman is broadening its lineup with a hatchback, but wants to retain the exclusivity of a luxury brand.
The jury was clear-eyed and confident about its decision to convict Raj Rajaratnam on all counts, one juror said.
In at least a partial concession to his critics, President Obama announced several steps to accelerate drilling on public lands and waters.
The company, accused of bias toward Republican causes, says it will list all political contributions made each year.
TMX, parent of the Toronto Stock Exchange, which had been criticized for trying to merge with the London Stock Exchange, received an unsolicited takeover bid from several Canadian banks and pension funds.
Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, has been hired to assemble a force of foreign troops in the United Arab Emirates, according to a variety of sources.
Expanding on their grandfather’s ideas, two brothers have created the Sporting-Sail, which lets skateboarders harness the wind to decelerate on steep terrain.
In a change from its previous text-only policy, Google is about to allow images — though not animation — on some advertising that accompanies Gmail.
Colin Angle, the longtime C.E.O. of iRobot, has been building and fixing things since he was 3.
Yes, the country is recovering — by forgetting about banking and rediscovering its essential weirdness. Ever try cod sperm?
Although the Raj Rajaratnam trial garnered most of the attention on Wall Street last week, making the foreclosure fiasco go away remained bankers’ biggest worry.
Linda Lausell Bryant, executive director of Inwood House in New York, says that when people view their co-workers as teammates, they can focus on their specific roles — and not on power.
Jeff Sommer and Peter Lattman on insider trading; David Gillen and Natasha Singer on functional foods; Gretchen Morgenson on systemic foreclosure problems; Robert Frank on Darwinian economics; and a parable about gold.
The anxiety we feel about whether we’ll succeed is evolution’s way of motivating us, says Robert H. Frank.
Gold and other commodities have been highly volatile this month. Do they have a place in a typical investment portfolio?
How $250,000 a year become the dividing line between the haves and have-nots.
For would-be owner-occupants without cash, the federally insured 203(k) loan is key.
In a new book, Edward Humes tells how a former river-rafting guide convinced Wal-Mart to change its environmental policies.
Mr. Kohn is a co-founder and the chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, one of the world’s largest architecture firms.
Many workers say they are so afraid of making a mistake in today’s economy that they are holding back on innovative ideas.
Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Music Beta from Google, guilty verdict for Raj Rajaratnam, G.M. investments and more.
Amid the decline of the American steel industry, years of disuse have transformed components of the Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pa., in striking ways.
A Times journalist explains how Bernard Madoff pulled off history’s greatest Ponzi scheme, and how he got away with it for so long.
This biography of Lincoln Steffens traces the convictions and delusions of one of the original “muckrakers.”
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