November 24, 2008 - NPNR's David Overbearing reports on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee...
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November 21, 2008 - Washington, D.C. -- The CEOs of several investment banking, insurance and financial services giants appeared before the House Financial Services Committee Thursday to testify about the state of their companies' financial health. What the committee members heard were tales of despera...
October 22, 2008 - I'm a pretty serious person, so I've been following the stock market for a total of about 22 days now. I've learned a fair amount about global finance in that time, which I present to you now, because you don't know any of it.
The stock...
October 3, 2008 - In discussions of the financial crisis, all anyone ever talks about is Wall Street and Main Street, over and over, as if these were the only two streets in the universe. Well, there are plenty of other streets out there that are also feeling the financial pinch, but getting no...
October 2, 2008 - Sweaty wrestling scholars have yet to establish whether it's a Chinese, Arabian or American curse; nonetheless somebody once said, "may you live in interesting times." And sure as God made the larva of the coddling moth eager to worm its way into the core of little green apples, we...
October 2, 2008 - With financial markets from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens in free-fall, many experts warn our entire economy could soon fold like the playing surface of a cheap parlor game, leaving fortunes, title deeds and dozens of small green houses strewn about our national rumpus room, just waiting for us...
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