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Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street succeeded brilliantly in capturing a culture, and failed miserablyas a call for change. To the director’s dismay, thousands of financial hotshots dreamed of becoming Gordon Gekko—and the rest is recent history. Antici

The billionaire has been belittled for his celebrity friends and bitter lawsuits. But his moves on Barnes & Noble and Barneys are no laughing matter.

Throughout the rich world battle lines are being drawn in the coming fight over deficit reductionWHEN friends go out to dinner, the convivial atmosphere can be shattered once the waiter brings the bill. A pleasant evening can descend into a dispute about

Like many households, Wener and Tieun Vieux have suffered a few financial jolts of late.

The founder of SAC Capital, whose first losing year was 2008, is taking in new money as hedge funds around him collapse.

The Atlantic covers breaking news, analysis, opinion around the intersection of Washington and Wall Street, plus coverage of key industries on the official site of the Atlantic Magazine.

He built a Web analytics company into a powerhouse, then sold it to Adobe for $1.8 billion.

Can the new Berkshire beat the old Berkshire? It's hard to see how.

Teaching kids about money by showing him where the cash comes from, then showing him how to make his own. No allowance allowed.

Coffee aficionados have been asking the question over and over again: is Portland's Stumptown coffee, the most conspicuous exponent of Coffee's "Third Wave," the new Starbucks?

Possible higher tax rates next year may mean more creative accounting strategies.

The finance site is really Quicken for the short-attention-span generation.

Andrew Rawnsley's political vivisectionThe End of the Party: the Rise and Fall of New Labour. By Andrew Rawnsley. Viking; 802 pages; GBP25. Buy from Amazon.co.ukLABOUR under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown has ruled Britain for longer than any non-Conservativ

Scholars, and people generally, look at leadership in a very different way than they did a generation ago. Leadership was seen as something that was straightforward, done "by the book," and could be easily learned. Leadership today is a lot more complic

Why no major business can ignore the world's fastest-growing economy.