Some public pension funds have suffered losses along with the hedge fund industry’s fortunes. ...

Pills are the new wave in cancer treatment, but payment coverage is often behind the times. ...

The downturn, combined with the Bernie Madoff fraud, has reduced wealth in Palm Beach, Fla., adding to below-the-surface tensions in the town. ...

The Social Security commissioner said that “governors are hurting their own states, their own citizens” and increasing the backlog by furloughing workers who make disability decisions. ...

A new reference book provides straightforward definitions of many perplexing economic terms that have become newly ubiquitous with the arrival of the downturn. ...

Private lenders are moving against President Obama’s plan to redirect billions in bank profits to needy students. ...

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