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Why RadioShack's bankruptcy ended in an auction

Mar 23, 2015
Hedge funds are squabbling over Radio Shack like vultures fighting over a coyote carcass. How did it come to this?

RadioShack's $3 million in executive retention bonuses

Feb 12, 2015
Eight executives and thirty senior managers could receive bonuses amid bankruptcy.

RadioShack's long road to bankruptcy

Feb 3, 2015
The curtain is finally closing on the troubled chain's long decline.

SkyMall files for bankruptcy. Blame your phone.

Jan 23, 2015
SkyMall catalog's days may be numbered, thanks to cellphones and tablets.

Your Wallet: Financial Crash

Do you have a story about about a time your personal economy crashed?

Banks' 'living wills' aren't looking so good

Aug 5, 2014
Banks still don't have realistic plans for an "orderly failure."

Other cities feel sting of Detroit bankruptcy

Jul 22, 2014
If one city doesn't pay up in full, does bond money dry up for everybody else?

For public good, not for profit.

Bike-sharing's big problem: missing bikes

Jul 16, 2014
The biggest, most-popular programs won't expand in 2014. They can't get new bikes.

Unpaid water bill? Detroit will turn off the tap

Mar 28, 2014
Half the bankrupt city's residents are delinquent on their water bills. Businesses, schools and the city itself owe more than $50 million in unpaid water bills.