For most companies, just getting mentioned on CNBC is enough to send stock prices rising -- and it doesn't seem to matter if the news is good or bad. ...

The silver lining to the foreclosure crisis cloud, which has stalled foreclosures nationwide, may just be the economic boost that comes from a tempora...

President Obama was catching flak for his new stimulus plan even before he announced it last week. The problem with the proposed measures, according t...

Should someone who makes $400,000 a year pay the same effective tax rate as someone who makes $40 million a year? In a recent CNBC spot, two analysts ...

These failures weren't accidents. They were the all too predictable result of the deregulationary fervor that has gripped Washington in recent years, ...

For a nation of people who don't understand how credit cards work, we sure produce a lot of books about business, finance and Wall Street. It's a bit like obesity. We publish a ton of diet books, but just keep getting fatter.

In a typical private-equity fund, the managers get paid two per cent of assets as a regular fee, plus twenty per cent of the fund's profits. They pay ...

. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...

Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who has more recently assumed the role of chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the ...

The New Yorker's James Surowiecki sat down with House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and talked financial regulation, health care ...

As the G-20 meeting of the world's 20 biggest economies approaches, the right is cultivating a strategic relationship with the "reformed socialists" o...