Greg Burns

— It's not the prettiest truck in the lot, but its time has come to shine. Beside the gleaming new tractor-trailers on display at the Mid-America Trucking Show here last...

For millions of Americans laid off in the devastating recession, the job search just isn't clicking. And here's the really bad news: Almost no one will be able to recover the...

Gasoline prices nationwide topped $2.80 a gallon on average last week, and some of the reasons were obvious. A busy summer driving season is just around the corner. Stimulus spending...

If the Microsoft of the Corn Belt has a killer app, it's Roundup Ready genes. Most of the corn and soybeans planted in the heartland contain this biotech trait for...

— It was barely noted in a financial world alive with mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and other deal-making, but it could signal the start of something new. Putting years of legal...

— Financial reform is up for grabs on Capitol Hill, and one ex-Goldman Sachs big shot is trying to swing the vote — against his former firm. Gary Gensler left...

Times sure seem tough in the trucking business. Along with the usual cutthroat pricing and strict new emission standards, the neighbors have gone on the warpath too. It's been that...

Anyone ticking off the reasons long-term joblessness stands at its highest levels in decades needs to do a little arithmetic. As of mid-2008, unemployment benefits ran out after 26 weeks....

The March issue of Playboy still features the old-style centerfold that made the magazine famous during its heyday long ago, but in a slightly smaller print format. Now the parent...

It's an article of faith among the business and government elite that bailing out Wall Street prevented another Great Depression. America had to do it, the thinking goes, to avoid...