One million people will stop receiving unemployment benefits in January unless Congress makes a move before the Christmas recess, according to an anal...
Janet Tavakoli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Goldman Sachs wasn't the only contributor to the systemic risk that nearly toppled the global financial markets, but it was the key contributor to the systemic risk posed by AIG.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Andy Cobb starred in TV commercials pitching health insurance for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida -- until he had a crisis of conscience. "In s...
bloomberg.com | Rich Miller | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
While financial institutions including Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. have received more than $200 billion in capital from the government, t...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. In southern Texas, Estela...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
Matthew Miller of San Pedro, Calif. spent $2,395 from his checking account during the month of October. He deposited $3,445 on top of a starting balan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
Jane Padgett couldn't believe it when the company that sells her dog's medicine said her credit card had been denied. When she called Bank of America,...
David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
Ann Minch has a question for Chase Bank after it raised the interest rate on her credit card to 21.24 percent. "Are you stupid? Chase Bank, are you s...
Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!
Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
It seems there isn't a day that goes by without more commentary on the demise of the dollar and the concomitant risk of a collapse of the world's reserve currency.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Warren, who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel, which makes her your last, best -- maybe only -- hope at getting the TARP money back, touches on several areas of enormous interest.
John Petro | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
People are still moving to New York -- despite the recession -- and hundreds of thousands of new housing units will need to be built before supply catches up with demand.
Pablo Triana | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
The dirty little secret of B-schools is that, even if they wanted to, they may not be able to unshackle themselves from practical irrelevance.
Ellen Brown | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business
The U.S. can settle its debts and get its own house in order, but that would cause world trade to contract. A substitute global reserve currency is needed to fuel the global economy while the U.S. solves its debt problems.
Don McNay | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
I've watched many people get in trouble with upside down car loans, second mortgages or high interest rate financing. Credit keeps many people from living within their means. Then a friend told me he was buying a large house.
usatoday.com | Kathy Chu and Sandra Block | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
Long after the economy recovers, millions of Americans will be left with a grim legacy of the recession: damaged credit scores, the three-digit rating...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business
Two weeks ago, Ann Minch of Red Bluff, Calif. announced in a YouTube video that she'd launched a one-woman "Debtors' Revolt" and would refuse to pay o...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
Obama won't be able to change the course our financial system is on unless he takes on the bankers and their hordes of lobbyists who continue to dictate policy in DC.
Pablo Triana | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
I don't need to tell you that this financial crisis involved financial fraud, murder, and annihilation of the worst kind. Shouldn't media people want to dig in and truly get what happened?
McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- One year after the near collapse of the global financial system, this much is clear: The financial world as we knew it is over, and some...
Alan Schram | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
Washington is experimenting with bogus stimulus, such as the "cash for clunkers" program. Taxing Peter to subsidize Paul's new car is not a recipe for sound economic growth.
Reuters | Juan Lagorio | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of Americans have already seen their credit card limits shrink, and millions more face the same fate as lenders prepare ...
Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Somehow we are locked into the drama of health insurance reform while so many moving parts are ignored. How did we get here? And more importantly, how do we change the conversation?
Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
This was a Katrina-like failing. A disaster was clearly building and defenses were weak. What were the Fed and Treasury doing in those key months between Bear and Lehman?
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business