United, American and Delta Accused of Price-Gouging Hurricane Irma Evacuees (JetBlue Wasn’t)

A gesture from all of them would have been good CREDIT: Getty Images Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Can you imagine airline executives sitting in some comfortable lair, sipping on a fine malt...

Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller explains how bitcoin resembles past market bubbles

With popular cryptocurrency bitcoin a few percentage points away from a new high, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller shared his theory on why it resembles a bubble. Shiller, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on bubbles, told CNBC’s...

Work Toward Bipartisan Fix for Health Markets Begins in Senate

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the chairman of the Senate health committee, said Wednesday that he hoped for a deal by the end of next week.

Trump’s Choice for Top Civil Rights Job Defends Private-Sector Work

Eric S. Dreiband, the nominee to run the Justice Department’s civil rights division, defended Abercrombie & Fitch over its firing of a Muslim woman and fought the agency over transgender bathroom access.