Novelist Margaret Atwood turns her discerning eye to debt, to what we owe each other, and what makes us human.

Hard-hit American consumers are turning to credit cards to plug their financial holes. Could the debt they’re racking up be the next shoe to drop in America’s credit crisis?

Heavyweight Harvard economist Martin Feldstein on the economic mess we are in, and maybe, the way out.

The U.S .Treasury and Federal Reserve jump in to rescue the pillars of the US mortgage system: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Warren Bennis has made a big name for himself over the years as a business management guru. He’s been an advisor to Fortune 500 companies and to presidents. Along the way, he’s thought a lot about leadership — what makes a great CEO, general, president.
Lately he’s decided that it all comes down to judgment. Courage, [...]

Tom Perkins, and the legendary venture capital firm he co-founded, has been a driving force in Silicon Valley for over thirty-five years. Netscape, Amazon, Google — some would say his firm built the Valley as we know it today.
When Al Gore wanted to help spark a green technology revolution, he joined up with Perkins’ and [...]

Former Wall Street hotshot, now Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson is orchestrating a big banks “mega-fund” to help mop up the subprime mortgage mess — and try to get some of that bad debt off the books and avoid a deeper credit crunch that could still stove in the U.S. economy.
The stakes are high, but still [...]

Back in the day, American business schools had a tough time fighting their way onto American university campuses. Academics didn’t see what they taught as a serious profession worthy of a spot.
B-schools made their case, arguing they had a science of management and the nation’s greater good at heart. And a million M.B.A.s were born.
Now, [...]

Well, nobody’s talking about the almighty dollar anymore. Driven by American debt and deficits, the once-mighty US greenback is now at parity with the once-laughable Canadian dollar for the first time in three decades. It’s a pipsqueak next to the Euro.
If the fall is good or bad, it depends on where you stand, and how [...]

In overall earning power, American women still lag behind American men. But among the young and urban, in some of the country’s hottest cities — New York, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis — young women are actually outstripping young men in take-home pay; some by a wide margin.
It’s those young women who have the cash, the nice [...]