NEW YORK (Fortune) -- The employees were transfixed. Standing on the mid-Manhattan trading floor of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in late 2007, a half-dozen staffers stared up at the ...

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Think you're a pretty savvy decision-maker? Take this quiz, adapted from Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles (Berrett-K ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- Hurricane Ike rips into southeastern Texas, blowing jagged tree limbs onto power lines all over the Houston metropolitan area. Like firemen responding to an alarm, gumshoe ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Apple shares fell sharply Friday morning after an erroneous Web report saying founder and CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack. Shares quickly recovered after it ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After two weeks of contentious and often emotional debate, the federal government's far-reaching and historic plan to bail out the nation's financial system was signed ...

One year after the credit crunch began, Fortune looks back at who saw trouble ahead, and who just ended up in trouble. (Fortune Magazine) -- It's the first time I've seen Wall Street's toughest ...

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Two years ago, following a July 1999 speech by Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, on the stock market--a rare subject for him to discuss publicly--FORTUNE ran ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Sitting down? It's time to tally up the federal government's bailout tab. There was $29 billion for Bear Stearns, $345 billion for Citigroup. The Federal Reserve put up ...

If Pets.com is the dot.com bust's most famous flop, Webvan was its biggest. Like many victims of the bubble, the grocery delivery service grew too fast, expanding its services to eight cities in ...