On Saturday, Elon Musk's SpaceX will make the first ever attempt by a private company to launch a spaceship and dock it with the International Space Station. Are we looking at the more affordable future of space flight?

Thanks to record-low interest rates, consumers with good credit can get 30-year fixed-rate mortgages for about 3.75%. But that's sky high compared to the 0.75% interest IBM is going to pay $900 million worth of corporate bonds.

When bankers come up with a new wonder product, it's rarely good news for consumers. JPMorgan Chase's new "Liquid" card is no exception. This reloadable debit card for the poor is loaded with fees.

Hey, Wall Street? Chicken Little called. She says you need to stop overreacting to JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss. I mean, it's not as if the sky were falling. For a bank this big, $2 billion? It's practically rounding error.

The coming electricity revolution will see conventional meters phased out in favor of "smart" meters to help create the smart grid. It should be a win-win for customers and the utilities -- but the utilities are getting greedy.

A penny, on its face, is worth one cent. But melted down for the copper it contains, it could be worth quite a bit more. So why not mine our piggy banks for metal?

There's a new contender for the dumbest CEO crown: Robert Stiller, the now ex-chairman of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. And the stupid mistake that cost him his job -- and a lot of money -- was an investing choice that you might be making too.

Once ballyhooed as "the Internet's largest marketplace for buying and selling all things automotive," eBay Motors' numbers have been slipping. But eBay's attempt to goose profits at Motors looks more likely to put them in reverse.

Metal costs have soared so high that it now costs significantly more for the U.S. Mint to produce a penny than the coins themselves are worth. That's why Canada just stopped making pennies. We should too.

Anyone who watched the adoption arc of CFLs can predict what will happen with LEDs: In a few years, they'll be popular, and everywhere. Harder to predict is how to invest in them. But we have a suggestion.