The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression

Video map showing the growth of Wal-mart year by year across the US.

Household debt falls by 0.8% as Americans' net worth falls by largest amount on record on declining home and stock prices.

Why is Cerberus, one of the world's richest private equity firms, begging for a bailout?

Op-Ed piece by NYTimes columnist Maureen Dowd on how a Pasadenia, CA newspaper has outsourced its entire local news staff to Bangalore, India.

After team "Care2 FlutterFrog's" frog with butterfly wings splashed into the Willamette, team member Anthony Duerr, 25, said falling off of the 25-foot flight deck was an experience in itself. "It was an amazing rush," he said.

We're doing a major upgrade to our data center this weekend that will impact your use of Care2. C2NN will NOT be availabe this weekend. Please see blog post above.

Venture capitalists are pumping billions into startups trying to create new fuels or energy sources. Politicians are looking to the industry for ways to fight climate change without wrecking the world's economy. He with with Chronicle reporters to talk ab

With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by