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Byline: BRETT ARENDS Just how weak is the Boston real estate market? We got an idea yesterday. And if you're looking to sell your home in the near future, the […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS How badly is the Mark Foley fallout hurting the GOP? If you want to know, you don't have to listen to talk radio - or wait for […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Wall Street is booming right now, and the Dow Jones Industrials Average is flirting with a new record high. But investors in Fidelity's two biggest stock market […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS One of the crooks behind the massive "Crazy Eddie" fraud of the 1980s has dropped a dime with a warning. If Washington goes ahead and guts the […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Goodbye Beantown ... hello Bean-hattan? Downtown Boston could be on the brink of a new era of New York-style skyscraper construction following a policy shift by Mayor […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a Boston business audience last night that most of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance rules enacted in 2002 had become a […]

Byline: Brett Arends Those obnoxious hedge fund managers and their super-rich investors think they've been trapped in a nightmare this month. They haven't. They've been trapped in a movie. Namely: […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Fred Hickey is used to going against the crowd. Everyone scoffed in 1999 when the veteran Nashua, N.H., stock market guru, who publishes the influential High-Tech Strategist […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If you're Deval Patrick, you need to raise a ton of cash - fast. It's true that Kerry Healey and her husband Sean are nowhere near as […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS There are fears that hundreds of jobs are at risk at Hub mutual fund company MFS after it was put on the block yesterday. "I would say […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Most newspapers were circumspect when they reported last week's news from the Boston Globe's parent company, The New York Times. But, it looks like alarm, if not […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Cambridge-based ViaCell is exactly the kind of biotech company that the candidates for governor all say they want to foster and keep here. In six years its […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS What's the going rate for a bucket of warm spit these days? Oh, around $4.8 million. And rising. At least, that's how much the three Democrats and […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Speculation is rising that Boston's MFS Investment Management, which launched America's first-ever mutual fund back in 1924, may be up for sale. The firm's parent company, Canadian […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Segway yesterday issued a worldwide recall of all its signature stand-up scooters to fix a glitch that could suddenly send them into reverse. But the more interesting […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS The Boston Globe's troubled parent company, the New York Times Co., has put its TV stations up for sale in the hope of raising hundreds of millions […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Look out Europe - Nasdaq chief executive Robert Greifeld was in town yesterday, and told the Hub's business elite he is still planning to take over rival […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Aunt Millie in Dubuque might soon start looking like a financial whiz. Aunt Millie probably has no interest in the markets. She keeps all her money in […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If you want to see how this town works, don't watch the TV debates. Just watch Bob Popeo. He is, of course, the legal condor at law […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Yesterday's management turmoil down on Morrissey Boulevard raises the question once again. Does the New York Times Co.'s top brass have a serious plan to turn their […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS There will be two elephants in the room when the Democratic candidates for governor face off in tonight's TV showdown. Though maybe it's a stretch to describe […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS A furious row has broken out at Harvard over the decision to invite Mohammad Khatami, the pro-Hezbollah former president of Iran, to speak on Sunday. And it […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Secretary of State Bill Galvin yesterday sounded the alarm over company pensions throughout the commonwealth. The state's chief financial watchdog warned that the new U.S. pension law […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS No one has fought a more bitter campaign against hedge funds and stock market speculators than Overstock.com's embattled founder and chief executive, Patrick Byrne. Now he tells […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS The Democratic race for governor erupted for the first time yesterday as the three contenders took off the gloves with just two weeks remaining before the make-or-break […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Congress set up Labor Day 112 years ago to honor the American worker. Radio Shack, of course, chose to celebrate this year by firing 400 of its […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Kidnapping and robbery at The Boston Globe! Nearly $16 million belonging to company director Jim Kilts has gone missing . . […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS When it comes to the Massachusetts economy, Deval Patrick says he would have three priorities as governor. Spend money to improve the infrastructure, from roads to wireless […]

Byline: Brett Arends For John Henry, the question must be: Is the tide finally turning? I'm not talking about the failing performance of the Sox on the field. The market […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Did Tom Cruise get kicked out of Paramount to make room for Stephen Spielberg? It sure looks like it. And the key decisions weren't taken last week […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS When chess buffs get bored, they sometimes fool around with a game called "suicide chess." The rules are similar, but the goal is to LOSE all your […]

Byline: Brett Arends Things have come to a bad way in the Bay State when our politicians can't even arrange a good dirty tricks campaign. The "Killer Coke" affair is […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS A Hyannis investment agent has been accused of stealing around $200,000 from his clients and blowing the money on cars, luxuries, and "Russian bride" trips to Moscow […]

Byline: Brett Arends Boston Federal Reserve president Cathy Minehan is warning people not to cheer too soon about last week's benign inflation news. "I don't take a lot of comfort […]

Byline: Brett Arends A year ago, Attorney General Tom Reilly owned the Democratic nomination for governor. Today, he's got five weeks to save it. "It's still anyone's race," he insisted […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS AOL Time Warner shareholders armed with shovels, metal detectors and pick-axes were last night poised to start digging up the Hawaiian golf course owned by former company […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If you have ever wondered why people and businesses are fleeing this state, just look at what Verizon is facing. An army of selectmen, hacks and lawyers […]

Byline: Brett Arends There has to be an easier way of making a buck than betting on airline stocks. Just ask Peter Saperstone, Stephen DuFour and other fund managers at […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS The Tehran terrorists are making millions of dollars in profits from the crisis launched by their proxies in Lebanon. Just follow the money. Iran pumps just over […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Liberal bloggers, aka "the pajama media," aka "net-roots" activists, aka "the blogosphere," aka "the pajamahadeen." Call them what you will, right now they are enjoying their biggest […]

Byline: Brett Arends Something unusual is going on at Fidelity this election year. Employees at the conservative firm are on track to double their donations to the Democratic Party. And […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he's never seen anything like it. "Lying b**** . . . shrew […]

Byline: Brett Arends CONCORD, N.H. - Up here they are already laying plans to hold their presidential primary early. Maybe, if it comes to it, as soon as the fall […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Business owners and residents along the North End waterfront are trying to contend with an infestation of giant wharf rats. City inspectors will head out today armed […]

Byline: Brett Arends The famous Sulzberger dynasty is quietly tightening its financial grip on the New York Times and the Boston Globe, a new analysis shows. And it's using shareholders' […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS A Boston Scientific director could face a Securities & Exchange Commission inquiry for selling a large chunk of stock shortly before the company announced bad news two […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS It's going to be a long, ugly four months over at Bain Capital's headquarters in the Prudential Center. That's how much longer Mitt Romney's old venture buddies […]

Byline: Brett Arends Isn't it time blue state Republicans like Kerry Healey quit the national party and started their own? I challenged the lieutenant governor to name a single issue […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey yesterday found herself in a Diane-vs.-Sam disagreement with "Cheers" owner Tom Kershaw after telling a news conference that his business had slumped by […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS When a chief executive is grabbed by the feds in an airport and charged with racketeering and other crimes, you probably don't expect to find Fidelity among […]