In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Comm...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
bloomberg.com | Scott Lanman | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve regional bank presidents are trying to ward off congressional efforts to weaken their clout, saying the moves m...
James Berman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
The market has had the biggest six month rally since the 1930s and stocks cannot go up forever. We can't time the sell-off, but we can prepare for one of its likely causes: inflation.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago
Big Business is not as interested in making big plans or big money with big ideas as they are in blaming Washington for all that ultimately ails you.
Marshall Auerback | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Government deficits are not an aberration; they are the norm. Our first (and possibly greatest) Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, called the national debt a "national blessing."
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
By reappointing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to another term, President Obama has chosen to dance with the devil he knows -- that's a good idea.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
Nobody just announces anything anymore. Before anyone in Washington can get lunch, it has to be leaked, briefed, previewed in speeches, summarized in ...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
The wealth of the past 10-15 years was illusory. The markets have in fact dropped back to where they "should" be.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business
The Washington Consensus is that whatever measures are needed to ensure economic recovery should be taken. This is especially true of the incoming te...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business
Chairman Martin would surely be stunned by the activism of today's Fed -- and the breadth of agreement that it is doing the right thing -- as it drops monetary napalm on dangerously frozen peaks of our financial system.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business
If we don't stimulate the economy, tax revenues will fall far faster and deficits rise, anyway. But they won't be the deficits of constructive investment. They will be the deficits caused by unnecessarily lost wealth.
Max Keiser | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
I was on Al Jazeera live from Doha, Qatar Sunday talking about the G8 meeting, the U.S. dollar and weapons of mass financial destruction.
Neil Grossman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
We are not terribly tolerant of failure. A CEO who disappoints investors and the markets often finds plenty of time to read by the fireside. A coach ...
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Are traditional assumptions about the connection between growth and proactive interest rate cuts still valid if monetary policy fails?
Ron Insana | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Fed will continue to cut interest rates until the markets are calm, financial institutions can lend again and the economy shows signs of life.
Al Jazeera | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Zimbabwe is to introduce a new currency by the end of the year in an attempt to control the country's extreme rate of inflation, the governor of the c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics