A roundup of the most-read Carolyn Hax columns of 2025 includes a woman’s birthday obsession, a flight-tracking in-law and a petty inheritance decision. Tensions can run high during the holidays.

What Is Free-Float Methodology? The free-float methodology is a widely accepted system for calculating the market capitalization of companies listed in stock indexes. By focusing only on shares ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A lookback option is an exotic option that lets investors use the asset’s past ...

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. A political analyst for ...

Leana S. Wen, a Washington Post contributing columnist, writes a twice-weekly column on a broad range of topics with an emphasis on public health and health policy. She writes the newsletter The ...

Start forward and drop from the high ledge. On lower ground, you'll notice that you can drop left and right into fetid swamp water. If you drop to the right, you can approach a device along the edge ...

There’s nothing like spending a bit of time on the shop floor to get a firmer grip on the finer details of running a business. I could argue that I’m ‘out on the floor’… ...