On Tuesday and Wednesday, Federal reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, a scholar of the epic financial meltdown of the Great Depression, and Treasury Secret...
Max Keiser | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
Starbucks is the first, but not the last example of how a falling dollar will make most items that Americans over consume too expensive for Americans to buy with their crumbling currency.
Jackson Williams | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.
Scott Thill | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
The more people unplug from the Kool-Aid machine, the faster we can get past disaster capitalism and onto the next stage in our economic evolution, which is alternative energy -- I say economic evolution, but it might as well be our salvation.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business
By flip flopping on the constitutionality of the NSA's surveillance program, and giving key telecom lobbyists prominent play in his campaign, McCain shows that he, too, can be bought.
Lawrence Alexander | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business
We find ourselves, thanks to the latest technology, having access to more information than we ever had before and yet end up knowing less than we did.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.30.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — In proposing the broadest overhaul of financial oversight since the Great Depression, the Bush administration has kicked off a fier...
James Berman | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
There are only a few moments in an investment lifetime where there is fear so thick and the pricing so low that great riches await those willing to bear the risk of buying. This is one of those times.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
Sachs described our current economic situation as "intentional" and pointed fingers at Alan Greenspan, The Fed, and an unpopular and weak administration that is "financing a war that nobody supports."
Wall Street Journal | E.S. BROWNING | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
Over the past 200 years, the stock market's steady upward march occasionally has been disrupted for long stretches, most recently during the Great Dep...
Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.21.2008 | Living
My Swiss-German world did not promote cross-cultural values -- most of my schoolmates looked pretty much like me. But something was different about the way my parents raised me.
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.
New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER, JEFF ZELENY | Posted 02.19.2008 | Business
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama intensified their populist appeals on Monday, responding to widespread economic anxiety and pushing t...
New York Times | ROGER LOWENSTEIN | Posted 01.17.2008 | Business
Ben Bernanke's first exposure to monetary policy was reading the works of Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate. That was 30 years ago, when Bernanke wa...
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 09.22.2007 | Business
The mortgage crisis is just another canary in the coal mine. While the middle class continues to scramble for scraps and criticize people for "being irresponsible," the big boys are laughing their way to the bank.
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Newsweek | Daniel Gross | Posted 07.20.2008 | Business