Quicker than you can say ‘political has-been,’ Ron Paul, the onetime GOP presidential candidate, has moved from “Manifesto” to “Memoir.”

T. Boone Pickens is spending $58 million on his national marketing campaign to promote alternative energy sources like wind for electricity and natural gas for cars. In the two weeks since he announced his effort, the stock market value of his company that supplies natural gas for vehicles has increased by about twice that amount.

Short-term results “can and will be lumpy,” Fortress Investment Group CEO Wesley Edens told investors after the firm announced first-quarter results earlier this year. When does “lumpy” become something more serious?

David Carr, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, has battled his own crack addition; he has survived cancer. Perhaps strengthened by those struggles, he’s now taking on a force that sometimes sends other reporters running for the hills: The PR department of Fox News.

Does the brash COO of the Tribune Company have any vision of where he is taking it - beyond bailing as fast as he can to stave off potential bankruptcy in the face of the $13-billion debt incurred by Sam Zell’s purchase last year?

One of California’s wealthiest residents and the owner of a New York toy manufacturer were among the moguls identified by Senate investigators today as allegedly using foreign accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Four years later, many of the wealthy donors who funded the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are still very active in molding public opinion.

Microblogging site Twitter has made it easier to navigate every up-to-the-moment update published on its website with a newly acquired search engine, Summize.

Some men buy their wives flowers; others, chocolates. Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, bought his third wife, Elizabeth, a community newspaper.

If he is successful in acquiring the Pittsburgh Steelers, what kind of owner will money-managing whiz Stanley Druckenmiller be?

Federal regulators closed IndyMac Bank Friday afternoon and transferred operation to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Bringing donuts, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, got in line at 4 a.m. Friday to buy a new iPhone 3G, just like thousands of Apple fans across the country.

Thanks to a Facebook founding friend, Barack Obama now has well over one million Facebook supporters.

To say IndyMac CEO Michael Perry is in a tough spot is an understatement. He might be on a mission impossible.

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon has a former Oklahoma governor (Frank Keating) and U.S. Senator (Don Nickles) on his Oklahoma City-based company’s board of directors. That seems only fitting. McClendon’s great uncle, Robert S. Kerr, co-founded Kerr-McGee and served as Oklahoma governor and senator.