WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has approved Mary Jo White's nomination to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission and sent it along for a final...

Buying and selling debt has become a big business in the U.S. The FTC found that debt buyers typically purchase portfolios of debt for only four cents on the dollar, on average, and then collect on those debts for the full face value -- which nets them a huge profit.

I saw a "pat on the back" news release from the Federal Trade Commission today: "FTC Settlement: Tax Relief Scammers Agree to Pay More Than $15 Million." If you go down a couple of sentences, it notes that the scheme bilked consumers out of $100 million. Crime does pay.

On both the financial catastrophe and the storm, Governor Romney got it completely wrong. Now, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Romney looks all wet.

Mitt Romney is the poster child of big business expediency, where truth is less important than closing the deal. And if he gets elected we'll see a reprise of the Wild West days that ended in the 2008 crisis.

The open hostility of these people to the idea of a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" really comes down to one thing: utter contempt for "you people." It's shameful. It's intolerable. It must be stopped.

NEW YORK -- In the latest effort by a federal regulator to force the mortgage industry to stop treating desperate homeowners like vagrants looking for...

NEW YORK — The companies that determine Americans' credit scores are about to come under scrutiny by the country's new consumer watchdog. The C...

When the framers of the national mortgage settlement agreed to let the deal expire in three-and-a-half years, it was with the assumption that the Cons...

Bank of America can lift at least $140 in fees off a customer in one day if he or she doesn't have enough money in the bank. That is the high cost...

Once upon a time in America, Greek was routinely included in the curriculum of a liberal arts education. Today, we don't necessarily need to speak the language, but we do need to better understand what's happening.