Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyMSNBCBy Allison Linn Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor known as much for his folksy wisdom as his investing prowess, announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with c… more »

  "The President ruminated further for awhile, but then also made an imperative promise to make sure that everything would transpire in the light of day, and that stewardship of the people's money would be held to account"~A Perfect Liberal Storm, publi… more »

ReutersBy Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Sunday as failure so far by the government to strike a deal on the debt ceiling made the prospect of default -- once considered an impossible outcome -- more like… more »

Bernard Condon, AP Business Writer Braden Janowski has never planted seeds or brought in a harvest. He doesn't even own overalls. Yet when 430 acres of Michigan cornfields was auctioned last summer, it was Janowski, a brash, 33-year-old software exec… more »

NYTimes / 1/3/2011 /By STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF Goldman Sachs’s investment in Facebook once again raises the issue of whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will force the social networking company into an initial public offering. In particular, this… more »