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NoMa Gets Gentrified, Now Waits For Tenants (11 August 09:30) |
| When National Public Radio said in March that it would build its new headquarters in NoMa, politicians and developers heralded it as a key boost for the rapidly developing neighborhood. |
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Office Building Deals Drop Off (11 August 09:30) |
| In April, when a wealthy Irish investor bought the I.M. Pei-designed building at 2099 Pennsylvania Ave. NW for $173 million, or $867 a square foot -- a record for the District -- it appeare... |
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Violent S. American Jewel Thieves May Be Hitting Smaller U.S. Cities (11 August 09:30) |
| The FBI is investigating whether a violent, well-organized ring of South American jewelry thieves is expanding its operations away from large metropolitan areas such as New York, Miami, Hou... |
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Money as a Weapon (11 August 09:30) |
| In the five-year struggle to finish the war in Iraq, military leaders and their troops have said a particular weapon is among the most effective in their arsenal: |
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In Ramadi, a Counterinsurgency in Cash (11 August 09:30) |
| One example widely cited as an effective use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program is Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province and a corner of the Sunni Triangle. |
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LaunchBox Cultivates the Scene for Start-Ups (11 August 09:30) |
| Awake on an hour of sleep, the 20-year-old stood in a parchment-colored suit before dozens of investors, trying to convince them that his six-month-old Web company was worth their money. |
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Help for Seniors Who Have Reverse Mortgages (10 August 09:30) |
| There's a lot to digest in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. |
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Whole Foods Recalls Beef Processed At Plant Long at Odds With USDA (10 August 09:30) |
| Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday, becoming the latest retailer affected by an E. coli outbreak traced to Nebraska Beef, one of the nation's largest ... |
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Credit Card Industry Faces Reforms (10 August 09:30) |
| Stricter regulation of the credit card industry will probably be approved by the end of the year, consumer advocates, members of Congress and banking officials said as the comment period on... |
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Your First Negotiation: the Agent's Commission (10 August 09:30) |
| Home sellers could save money by thinking of real estate commissions as an agent's asking price. It's something that's open to negotiation. |
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A Few Fast Rides Among the Clunkers (10 August 09:30) |
| In the wreckage of the auto-related stocks lie a few gems. Certainly not the carmakers: General Motors is down 56 percent this year through Tuesday; Ford is off 23 percent. Of the 45 public... |
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Slow Economy Puts Value Investing to the Test (10 August 09:30) |
| In his latest letter to shareholders of Legg Mason Capital Management, chief investment officer Bill Miller showed very little of the confidence he has been known for in the past. |
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Strong Energy Measures Wanted (10 August 09:30) |
| A new national poll shows broad public support for government action in the face of $4-a-gallon gas and other energy concerns, giving Republicans a rare opening to go on the offensive again... |
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Icahn Prepares to Replace Yahoo Board (15 May 09:24) |
| Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn says he is launching a fight to replace the entire Yahoo board because it "has acted irrationally" in resisting efforts to be acquired by Microsoft and "c... |
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Credit Cards Cost, No Matter What (15 May 09:30) |
| I should have known: Call people suckers and they'll take offense. |
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Food Costs Jump Most in 18 Years (15 May 09:30) |
| Rising global grain prices helped spark the largest increase in monthly food costs in nearly 20 years, as consumers paid more in April for cereals and baked goods, and the dairy, meat and o... |
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United Way to Target Health, Education and Income (15 May 09:30) |
| The United Way of America, alarmed at the nation's fraying safety net, will announce today that it will direct its giving toward ambitious 10-year goals that would cut in half the high scho... |
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Icahn Plans Challenge To Yahoo Leadership (15 May 09:30) |
| Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has amassed a significant stake in Yahoo, one of the world's largest Web companies, and is planning to nominate a dissident slate of directors to the comp... |
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Sick-Leave Abuse Prompts Calls to Compensate for Unused Time (15 May 09:30) |
| At the Internal Revenue Service, one employee over a two-year period took sick leave on 13 of the 14 Tuesdays after a Monday holiday. |
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Polar Bear Is Named 'Threatened' Species (15 May 09:30) |
| Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne listed polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, saying the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to ... |
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Freddie's Quarterly Loss Widens (15 May 09:30) |
| Rising loan delinquencies and falling home prices took an increasing toll on Freddie Mac during the first quarter, but accounting changes obscured the blow. |
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Pearlstein: Housing Legislation (14 May 08:30) |
| Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses the Congressional proposals that would rescue homeowners at risk of foreclosure. |
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Food Prices See Greatest Monthly Increase in Nearly 20 Years (14 May 08:24) |
| Rising global grain prices helped spark the largest increase in monthly food costs in nearly 20 years, as consumers paid more in April for cereals, baked goods, and the dairy, meat and othe... |
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Banker Sees a Rich Market in the Poor (14 May 09:30) |
| JOHANNESBURG -- To Brian Richardson, the next frontier in banking looks like this: A farm laborer gets her wages not in cash but in an account she can access with her cellphone. With a few ... |
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Burdened by the Weight of Inflation (14 May 09:30) |
| Nearly seven in 10 Americans are worried about maintaining their standard of living, as concern has spiked higher in just the past five months, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News p... |
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Democrats Agree on Budget Plan That Avoids the Biggest Decisions (14 May 09:30) |
| Congressional Democratic leaders have reached agreement on a $3 trillion budget blueprint that would authorize a small increase for domestic priorities and spare millions of households from... |
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Seats of Power: A Return to Skybox Lobbying? (14 May 09:30) |
| Not long ago, lobbyists regularly entertained lawmakers and their aides in skyboxes at local sports arenas. But after a series of scandals on Capitol Hill, the law was changed to forbid con... |
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Intelligence Factor (12 May 09:30) |
| Our region does not have a lot of factory jobs. We don't make ketchup. We don't make toilet paper. We don't make steel. Our business, without sounding too pompous, is largely ideas and the ... |
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Economy: The Fed Steps In (17 March 09:30) |
| Alice Rivlin, economist, former director of the Office of Management and Budget and founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, discusses the action of the Federal Reserve to bail... |
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U.S. Markets Fall Sharply at Open (17 March 07:47) |
| U.S. stock markets dropped sharply when trading opened this morning, a day after the near collapse of a large investment firm shook confidence in the global financial system despite emergen... |
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Bush Remarks on Economy (17 March 07:40) |
| PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for coming by today to talk about the economic situation. But we'll be meeting later on this afternoon with the President's Task... |
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Asian, European Markets Tumble on Bear Stearns News (17 March 03:32) |
| World markets dropped sharply overnight and Wall Street was poised to follow suit on Monday morning after an emergency round of steps by the Federal Reserve and the near collapse over the w... |
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Letting the Market Drive Transportation (17 March 09:30) |
| It took a few moments for Tyler Duvall, the top policymaker at the Department of Transportation, to digest the news from the Hill. But when he realized what it meant, he was stunned. |
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Cost Nearly Doubles For Marine One Fleet (17 March 09:30) |
| A year after Sept. 11, 2001, the White House set out to build a fleet of state-of-the-art Marine One helicopters for the al-Qaeda age that would be safer, more powerful and more reliable th... |
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Fighting Gun Traffickers Involves Lots of Legwork, a Little Luck (17 March 09:30) |
| For police and federal agents trying to keep guns out of the hands of criminals in the District, building a case against a firearms trafficker can mean months of work. Or it can come togeth... |
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A Taste for Continental Currency (17 March 09:30) |
| The Amsterdam Falafelshop in Adams Morgan has for years served as a last stop for both the late-night reveler and the jet-lagged European traveler. |
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Bringing Together AOL's Ad Network (17 March 09:30) |
| Just as soon as AOL veteran Lynda M. Clarizio was promoted last week to lead Platform A, the company's ambitious online advertising network, firecrackers started to go off around her. |
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White Male Vote Especially Critical (17 March 09:30) |
| In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing... |
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Housing Crunch Flattens More Companies (17 March 09:30) |
| As the housing and credit markets continue to spiral downward, business casualties are rising rapidly in bankruptcy courts across the Washington region. |
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Fed Takes Broad Action to Avert Financial Crisis (17 March 07:59) |
| The Federal Reserve took dramatic action on multiple fronts tonight to avert a crisis of the global financial system, backing the acquisition of wounded investment firm Bear Stearns and inc... |
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Fed Takes New Steps to Ease Crisis (17 March 06:03) |
| WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said new steps announced by the central bank Sunday should help squeezed financial institutions get cash infusions_ a fresh effort to pro... |
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JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share (17 March 05:28) |
| NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million _ or $2 a share _ a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most ve... |
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Bear Stearns Close to Selling to JPMorgan: WSJ (17 March 02:09) |
| NEW YORK - Bear Stearns Cos (BSC.N) hopes to seal a deal to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) before Asian markets open on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. |
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Paulson: Govt Will Act to Aid Markets (17 March 01:41) |
| WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will "do what it takes" to stabilize chaotic markets and minimize the economic damage, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday after a tumultuous ... |
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Massachusetts Governor Considers a Gamble (16 March 06:18) |
| PALMER, Mass -- In this once-prosperous, now-depressed former mill town in western Massachusetts, residents casually rattle off the names of all the factories that shut down long ago and of... |
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Residents Stung by High Cost Of Power (16 March 06:18) |
| George Mann, an $18-an-hour grocery store clerk in Waldorf, found himself trembling last month as he wrote the check to pay his $644 electricity bill. |
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Big News Tuesday Might Not Be Super (16 March 09:30) |
| Tuesday is a big day. In the morning, there will be a couple of appetizers: Fresh data on how much wholesale prices rose in February and how much home construction was started. Then comes t... |
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Lustrous Metal Is a Big Deal (16 March 09:30) |
| Dealmakers have taken a shine to the metals and mining industry as commodities prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Takeovers accelerated last year, with a big push from BHP Billiton's ... |
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First Panic, Then Euphoria. Probably. (16 March 09:30) |
| Tobias Levkovich, chief of U.S. equity strategy at Citi Investment Research, issued a brief report last week titled "Hopelessness Setting In." He noted that many investors appear to be givi... |
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Proxy Ballots Feature Human Rights and Climate Change Issues (16 March 09:30) |
| NEW YORK -- Discussions of the bloodshed in Darfur and issues like climate change occur regularly in the world of politics, but lately these issues have wedged their way into often dry fina... |
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