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A growing number of Americans are living to age 100. Nationwide, the centenarian population has grown 65.8 percent over the past three decades, from 32,194 people who were age 100 or older in 1980 to 53,364 centenarians ...

When I was a wee lad - OK maybe I wasn't so wee as I was in my mid-20s, I was a marketer working on the AARP Health Insurance account which at that time was underwritten by United HealthCare. In fact I think it still is,...

Wine sales site Lot18 laid off 25 employees today or 35% of its staff, AllThingsD reports. In the past year, the startup has downsized from 80-90 employees to a mere 46. While its previous layoffs coincided with sections...

Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities is a modern classic that perfectly captures an era on Wall Street and in New York City when traders still yelled in pits and bankers were 'masters of the universe.' That was 1987. This...

Small Moons is an art installation by SuttonBeresCuller, a collective of three artists (John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler), that was displayed at the Land of Tomorrow gallery in Louisville, Kentucky last fall. The a...

India's new finance minister is spearheading economic reform hoping to reverse its weakest growth in a decade.

Energy stocks trade lower Monday, with analysts busily re-rating and mostly downgrading several energy companies under their watch.

At some point, you are likely to want to move beyond just investing in an all-market index fund or ETF, and start making other additions to your investment portfolio. As you prepare to evaluate investments for inclusion ...

Facebook tells users that their friends "claimed" a Facebook offer even when they didn't actually redeem it, Business Insider has learned. The confusion appears to stem from the words Facebook uses in your News Feed to i...

If you've watched business TV or read Paul Krugman lately, you may have stumbled across a strange and maybe frightening debate among policy wonks and...

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Paul Krugman is arguing for a rather outlandish solution to solving the debt-ceiling crisis: Minting a $1 trillion coin. The idea, which gained (ahem) currency...

Wet Seal has hired long-time industry veteran, John Goodman, to be its new CEO. Most recently, he was chief apparel and home officer of Sears Holdings, overseeing both the Sears and Kmart brands. He started his job today...

Samsung hasn't been shy about its plans for TV lately. Over the last few weeks, it's teased a new web-connected Smart TV for streaming content and managing shows from your cable or satellite provider. Today, we get all t...

DETROIT (AP) -- A U.S. government safety agency wants electric and hybrid vehicles to make more noise when traveling at low speeds so pedestrians can...

Earlier today, Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced plans to introduce legislation to ban the Treasury from minting high-value platinum coins and using said coins to get around the debt ceiling. He says he does think...

The executive who has steered Iglo Group to a doubling in profit over six years is stepping down.

(Reuters) - Two internal candidates have emerged in Legg Mason Inc's search for its next chief executive, said people familiar with the matter.

Last year, 54 people were killed by trains after falling, jumping, or being pushed onto New York City subway tracks. The unusually deadly year has prompted calls for the Metropolitan Transit Authority to find a solution ...

Intel is accelerating the launch of a chip that will make the PC more competitive against rival makers of tablet and smartphone chips.

NASA's ongoing Kepler mission to find Earth-like planets fit for human colonization has discovered a total of 461 new candidates, the agency announced today. The discoveries have collectively increased the Kepler catalog...

William Boutelle is a psychiatrist with ServiceNet, which provides clinical, residential, rehabilitative, recovery and support services in Northampton, Mass. He doesn't like flying much.