Saying he would defend his plan, President Obama cast himself as a populist crusader willing to do battle with special interests.

In his letter to shareholders, Warren E. Buffett was uncharacteristically critical of himself and the business world at large.

A pool of reporters, including DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, will be on hand at Berkshire’s annual meeting to ask questions sent in by shareholders and the public.

The economy is spiraling down at an accelerating pace, threatening to undermine the Obama administration’s projections of growth in years to come.

Allegations that the Stanford Financial Group ran a Ponzi scheme broke up a family-like investment firm.

Big contractors await the priorities of the Obama administration and what they mean for the industry.

Those with incomes of $200,000 to $400,000 may not see as much of a tax increase under the president’s budget as they may have feared.

The bank’s collapsing share price has damaged few reputations as much as Prince Walid bin Talal’s.

Shaoxing, where 20,000 textile and garment factories once hummed, was a city that globalization built. Now, it is suffering as demand wanes in the U.S.

Networks still pull in the biggest audiences, but they are losing the cultural and the financial battle to cable.

The deal with banks gives the media mogul two more years to pay down the debt without having to sell more stock in Viacom and CBS.

J. Nicholas Counter III spent 27 years as president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the industry’s chief negotiator.

Questions began to swirl after the Treasury Department announced that it would increase its ownership in Citigroup.

As part of his budget, President Obama has proposed mandatory caps on greenhouse gases and a system for auctioning permits to companies that emit them.

President Obama’s budget seems aimed more at a middle class that missed out on the boom than at the nation’s poorest.

Both pro- and anti-tobacco forces have been waiting to learn when the Democratic Congress would bring up the F.D.A. legislation.

Even if you can’t afford the insurance your job once provided, you may still have options to guard against medical bills.

Campus visits, private counselors and SAT tutoring can add up to a fortune. What gives a student a leg up and what’s overkill?

In an e-mail message, an AstraZeneca physician was praised for doing “a great ‘smoke-and-mirrors’ job” in muting adverse data.

The stunning economic fall of Iceland late last year has ignited fears that Ireland may suffer a similar fate.