Bad Investments

For Sale to Feds: My Toxic Assets

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

1. 59 yo-yos, purchased over a lifetime on the principle that they would accrue in value and eventually be collector's items, as indeed they are.

This Crisis Has Many Faces

Ron Insana | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Ron Insana

As foreclosures have mounted and bank lending has become extremely scarce, consumers have begun pulling in their horns, bringing the U.S. economy to the brink of recession.