Richard Wilner
The Archive
Former POW calls on Trump to reclaim US ship captured by North Korea
Tom Massie has a simple request for President Trump ahead of the scheduled June 12 summit with North Korean strongman Kim Jung-un: Bring back the USS Pueblo. Massie was a...
Americans are falling in love with Olive Garden -- again
It must be the salt in the pasta water. Olive Garden, the 845-unit pasta chain owned by Darden Restaurants, reported on Friday that same-store revenue increased 2.2 percent in the...
Buffett's stox-flap flip-flop
Even when praised as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett has always tried to act humble -- but perhaps not as humble as at yesterday's annual meeting of his holding...
Old oracle still cracks wise
After dealing with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the hundreds of tornadoes in the South, Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies had an underwriting loss of $821 million in the...
GMAC faces New York foreclosure brawl
A Bronx homeowner is scheduled for a courtroom battle royale later this month -- facing off in Manhattan bankruptcy court against the largest foreclosure mill in the state to see...
Huge profits result from foreclosure procedure
A new gold rush is sweeping the country -- only this time the speculators are looking to get fat off the $4 billion home foreclosure industry by promising banks a...
Gold men: Inside Sachs culture
Of all the hits Goldman Sachs has taken in recent weeks -- the civil fraud suit filed against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the criminal probe launched by...
Sachs' sneaky bet
While banks and homeowners struggled as the housing bubble burst in the second half of 2007, Goldman Sachs was making "serious money" from betting against the mortgage market, startling new...
Fla. judge reverses GMAC loan
GMAC Mortgage got slammed by a Florida judge this month -- and that may be good news for some of the 1,234 New York homeowners hit with a foreclosure action...
Corporate espionage creates ‘peek’ earnings
In the first few days of the summer of 2008, headlines in the business media carried news of heavy rains and floods across Iowa — and much of the US...
Shh! GoDaddy turns clients into bidders
GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 domain registry company, is getting rich in part by pitting its customers against each other in bidding wars for expiring Web addresses — instead of using...
Maria is no longer sweet on 'Honey'
CNBC's star personality Maria Bartiromo is so over her "Money Honey" moniker. The 42-year-old host of the business cable station's "Closing Bell" show, who made off-the-air headlines three years ago...
Bloomberg brings numbers game to baseball statistics
Bloomberg LP, the financial services data giant, has launched its first consumer products -- two online baseball statistics tools, one aimed at the 11 million fantasy baseball players in the...
Jets look to run $$ back play
Six weeks after their season ended, one game short of the Super Bowl, Woody Johnson's New York Jets appear close to yet another victory. The team is in good shape...
Liening on NY homeowners
As the mortgage melt down paralyzed the economy across the US and throughout New York State, one company in the center of the storm had all the business it could...
20 unemployed vie for every one NYC position
No recovery here. While economists say the Great Recession has ended and numbers out of Washington say the economy is growing at a robust pace, the local jobs picture remains...
NY mortgage plan leaving owners hanging
There's more bad news for financially strapped New York homeowners. An ambitious, year-old mortgage-modification program implemented by judges in a Manhattan bankruptcy court has produced the same underwhelming results as...
A hot book in a cold real estate market
Real-estate agents caught in the downward house-pricing spiral have to pull their clients into the future and away from the nostalgia of past higher home values if they want to...
Dow investors: it was all naught(s)
The aughts were for naught. After starting out the decade with so much promise, the Dow Jones industrial average — up more than 300 percent in the Nineties — ended...
Trump, Icahn trade barbs in Atlantic City casino fight
Most Atlantic City smackdowns involve professional wrestlers, not billionaires with legal papers, but a steel-cage match is shaping up between Carl Icahn and Donald Trump over the bankrupt Trump Entertainment...