By Richard Cowan, Rachelle Younglai, Tim Reid and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small team of U.S. Treasury officials is discussing opti...

During the dark days that began Timothy F. Geithner’s tenure as Treasury secretary, he was constantly under fire, accused of bailing out Wall Street...

In the midst of the global financial crisis in 2008, the Federal Reserve lent Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Royal Bank of Scotland at least $30 bil...

LOS ANGELES -- In a recent interview, United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner laid out his view of the nature of world economic growth and the r...

Wall Street should recognize it is in its long-term interests to work with government to curb Wall Street excesses. The actions of a few bad apples -- if they go unpunished -- can put in peril confidence in the entire system.

As AIG and the government hammered out a plan last week to repay taxpayers for the bailout worth up to $182.3 billion, the U.S. Treasury reckoned the ...

If Goldman Sachs wanted to reduce its exposure to subprime mortgage investments, why didn't it simply sell the assets it owned?

Taking an economics course in college may have swayed your political leanings, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve's Bank Of New York. In ...

Shareholders may have to wait for months to retrieve capital after U.S. regulators told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares amid politi...

Bloomberg Markets reports in its April issue. Representative Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government R...

A leading House Republican called for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to release more documents related to the 2008 bailout of troubled insurer ...

If you want to understand the deals that wiped out AIG, the best place to start is the website of the New York Fed.

Weeks after rescuing the American International Group with an $85 billion taxpayer loan in late 2008, Federal Reserve Board officials rejected a propo...

This post has been updated with a quote from a senior Obama administration official. Goldman Sachs approached AIG and expressed its willingness to ca...

WASHINGTON — The top Republican on a House committee investigating financial bailout decisions says the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is with...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took the unusual step Tuesday of asking Congress's investigative arm to conduct a "full review" of the Fed's rol...

UPDATE: This post was updated at 2:15 p.m. to reflect new information obtained by the Huffington Post regarding an ongoing investigation into these ma...

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and h...