8:11am: Oil prices fluctuate, buoyed by early reports that OPEC members will implement production cuts but also pulled lower by dismal reports on the U.S. economy. More

Jan 5: You shouldn't expect regulators to catch bigtime financiopaths like Bernie Madoff - that's not how the world works. More

Nov 18: To avoid another big spike in gas prices, raise the gas tax and let market forces go to work. More

Nov 7: GM said Detroit would go under unless it could buy Chrysler. Then it had second thoughts. More

Oct 27: Will 'mark to market' accounting take the fall for the Wall Street mess? More

Oct 13: Sometimes having the right manager is more important than picking the right investment category. More

Oct 6: Borrow the money now, don't trade cash for trash, and other sensible ideas the government is unlikely to follow. More

Sep 26: Don't be surprised if the cure conjured up by Washington fails to solve the market's woes. More

Sep 15: How keeping short rates low created the biggest taxpayer bailout in history. More

Sep 2: Why, after years of measured silence, has Greenspan morphed into the great communicator? More

Aug 18: How to solve the financial crisis? Play for time, pray for markets to turn. More

Jul 30: When it comes to tax loopholes, there are few better than Sam Zell. Will he strike again with the Cubs deal? More

Jun 23: What can we glean from Wall Street's current soap opera? More

Jun 10: Its labels may look down-home, but Smucker's tax games are very sophisticated. More

May 12: How two big, long-term investors, Bill Miller and Gordon Crawford, played a short-term game with the Yahoo/Microsoft deal and stumbled. More

Apr 28: Rising gas and food prices show the risk in economic miracles. More

Apr 14: High-income folks like me don't qualify for rebate checks. But we're getting so much more. More

Mar 19: Because the trust fund is invested in Treasuries, the real problem starts not in 2040, but a decade or so from now. More

Mar 10: It shouldn't work this way, but it's true: Tax-exempt mutual funds are today yielding more than Treasury funds. Is it time to swap your portfolio? More

Mar 3: Stock returns may never be the same - at least for this generation of investors. More

Feb 18: Steve Miller's autobiography is a must-read if you want to understand business - and businesspeople. More

Feb 4: Wall Street heavy hitter Joe Rosenberg says the Yahoo bid doesn't make any sense for Microsoft shareholders. More

Jan 24: How Wall Street banks frittered away billions. More

Jan 11: Brace yourselves, taxpayers of America. You're going to help Bank of America finance its $4 billion buyout of Countrywide. More

Dec 31: Two things stand out from 2007 -- the peak of the private equity craze, and panic about debt markets. More

Dec 27: You don't know whether we're in a recession until months after it starts. But investing successfully requires looking forward, not backward. More

Dec 20: The Board's clout isn't what it used to be. Does it matter? More

Nov 26: Tired of paying taxes like ordinary people? This shelter is for you! More

Oct 19: Even a skeptic like Fortune's Allan Sloan admits that sometimes - as with banking stocks and rating agencies - it's hard to see financial holes until it's too late. More

Oct 16: A close-up of one deal shows how subprime mortgages went bad, says Fortune's Allan Sloan. More

Oct 3: Longtime Forbes editor James W. Michaels was the best of the best, recalls Fortune's Allan Sloan, who worked with him for decades. More

Sep 28: The reckless are getting relief from Bernanke while the prudent are paying the price, argues Fortune's Allan Sloan. More

Sep 24: A little-noticed provision of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones takeover allows the Bancroft family to defer taxes. Fortune's Allan Sloan opens up the books. More

Sep 7: In all the anxiety over turbulent markets, it's easy to lose sight of what has and hasn't changed. Fortune's Allan Sloan spotlights two eternal financial verities. More

Sep 4: You're about to hear that the budget deficit is falling. Don't believe it, warns Fortune's Allan Sloan. The deficit is much, much bigger than you think. More

Aug 22: When Wall Street fails, it inevitably asks for a handout. Fortune's Allan Sloan says there must be a better way. More

Aug 1: Because of the share structure, the family had less control than owners of the New York Times and Washington Post. And guess what: The same thing could happen to Murdoch. More

Jul 30: A triple-digit change in the Dow means... almost nothing. Fortune's Allan Sloan explains the math, and why you shouldn't panic in tough times. More

Jul 23: Blackstone's IPO was even sweeter for its founders than you thought, says Fortune's Allan Sloan. More