On Tuesday and Wednesday, Federal reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, a scholar of the epic financial meltdown of the Great Depression, and Treasury Secret...
MSNBC | Ovetta Wiggins | Posted 07.20.2008 | Business
Following the advice of their pastor, the men and women shuffled to the altar, cut up their credit cards and placed them near his feet. "If we want t...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billion se...
New York Times | Stephen Labaton | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
Federal policy makers have concluded that the turmoil plaguing the housing and financial markets is likely to spill deep into 2009, becoming one of th...
McClatchy Newspapers | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 06.15.2008 | Business
Not since the 1970s has the U.S. economy faced such an ugly combination of a persistent energy shock, a looming recession threat and menacing inflati...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
We find ourselves at a fork in the road. One way leads to a new world, one of frightening convulsions but eventually benefiting every economy, globalization. The other way is the road of nationalism.
McClatchy Newspapers | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 06.08.2008 | Business
The credit crisis triggered by bad home loans is spreading to other areas, forcing banks to tighten credit and probably extending the credit crisis th...
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaires Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger say the pain many financial institutions are feeling because of the credit crunch i...
New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL GRYNBAUM | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
The American economy remained stuck in the slow lane over the first three months of the year, expanding by a modest 0.6 percent annualized rate, the C...
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
Despite the economic slowdown in the United States, globalization provides a cushion of employment in other markets around the world - if you're game to work outside your comfort zone.
New York Times | Posted 04.13.2008 | Business
Recession? What recession? Judging by the way some wealthy businessmen and women are spending, you'd never guess that the country was in a major econo...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
The entire debate over the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is taking place as if Ronald Reagan were president and it was still "morning in America."
Reuters | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the U.S. economy was in recession, and said it would be appropriate to tap public funds...
International Herald Tribune | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that financial losses stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis might approach $1 trillion, citing a "collec...
Linda Keenan | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
The pill gave the markets a quick burst, but the fast-acting stimulus soon wore off, leaving investors unimpressed and thoroughly unsatisfied.
Los Angeles Times | Peter G. Gosselin, Maura Reynolds | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Amid new signs of financial turmoil, the Bush administration Thursday raised the prospect of tighter regulation of U.S. financial markets. But it once...
Financial Times | Posted 09.18.2007 | Home
Zimbabwe is "closer than ever to complete collapse" under the weight of a deepening economic crisis that threatens to destabilise southern Africa, an ...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Newsweek | Daniel Gross | Posted 07.20.2008 | Business