Could one man operate an alleged $50-billion Ponzi scheme without help from anyone else?

Steve Odland, the CEO and chairman of Office Depot, topped the list of naughtiest executives on the recently released annual December list of naughty and nice CEOs put together by Glassdoor.com.

The news that CIT Group Inc. and American Express were approved this week for $5.7 billion in bailout funds after becoming “bank holding companies” strikes us as a particular sort of American ingenuity.

Caroline Kennedy has friends in high places, including President-elect Barack Obama, whom she supported in his quest for the presidency.

The hedge fund executive who committed suicide in his 22nd-floor office on Madison Avenue was a blue-blood French aristocrat and champion yachtsman entrusted with the money of some of Europe’s wealthiest families.

What’s a Ponzi scheme got to do to get lasting respect? In October, Thomas J. Petters, a Minnesota businessman, was the talk of the business world for allegedly defrauding investors of $3 billion or more.

Looking for a place to stay during Barack Obama’s inauguration? New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel and his wife are offering their Virginia estate for $50,000 a night.

Greeted by mixed reviews, Mamma Mia! The Movie is getting its revenge - at the box office.