Welcome to campus. College is going to be absolutely fantastic. But no, the credit-card company isn't offering you a “free” iPod. Trust me when I say it's going to work out a lot cheaper if you go and buy your own iPod and then throw the credit card application in the trash. It may, in [...]

Enjoy it while we can: America still has the most billionaires. But China, Russia, India and Brazil are moving up fast.

Computer gremlins frustrated efforts by many taxpayers to file their returns electronically using TurboTax and other Intuit products before Tuesday's deadline. But those taxpayers won't be penalized. The Internal Revenue Service said anyone who tried to file electronically and couldn't get through because of Intuit “server problems” has until the end of today. Intuit said [...]