It has been shocking and bewildering to watch the behavior of some of the top banking CEOs in recent months, punctuated by the appearance of four of these executives before Congress last month.

Even though many economists say the Great Recession ended over the summer, you'd never know it by the millions of Americans still struggling to find w...

In 64 years, the typical American household went from having $5,000 in the bank to possessing four credit cards, $8,500 in credit card debt, and nearly $120,000 in total personal debt.

What is left out of the description of his theory in regards to counter-cyclical fiscal policy, is that Keynes also believed that in times of relative prosperity sovereigns should create budget surpluses.

Buying a five year naked CDS is like buying life insurance on a stranger. It is not legal for individuals and should be treated similarly for companies.

As Elizabeth Warren, a good Methodist, warns: The banks are trying everything they can think of to kill financial reform. And we must not let them do that.

The middle and working-classes have been hammered by the Great Recession and no industry has taken it more on the chin than construction. ...

WASHINGTON — The job market is lurching toward improvement. It just has a long way to go. The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday w...

I am writing a novel. It is about the next Great Recession that will occur in this decade. The book's subtext will cite the next Great Real Estate Bub...

Bill Clinton saw it clearly when he was running for President against Bush I. It became his mantra: "It's the economy, stupid." Clinton wanted to ref...

The new Census report shows a change, but not a sea change, in the gender-and-family employment picture.

The gift this country needs most this holiday season is an economy built on a solid foundation, one that will provide middle class, family-supporting jobs now and into the future.

Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...

Here is a quick everyman's guide to economic statistics. Making sense of the figures demands a large measure of skepticism and an eye for misrepresentation and forgery.

In New York, the oldest and snobbiest financial ventures are called "white shoe" firms. Their arrogance, risky investments and confounding dealing in derivatives threw the rest of us into the Great Recession.