Top executives at three major companies that received taxpayer-financed bailouts received excessively generous pay packages last year, in an apparent ...

The big banks that critics claim caused the financial crisis may have gotten bailed out, but they apparently haven't learned their lesson. Large b...

Shares in bailed-out insurer American International Group (AIG.N) fell to their lowest levels in nearly eight months on Monday, potentially moving...

NEW YORK -- On Wednesday, the Treasury Department celebrated the fact that its $250 billion investment in the nation's banking system has officially m...

TARP played a significant role preventing the mini-depression from becoming a full-blown Great Depression, but part of the cost is to distort further incentives at the heart of Wall Street.

Last week, the Federal Reserve was forced by law to release the details of its back-door bailout of the global financial system. These later purchases represent the real risk for taxpayers in the Fed's continuing bailout activities

The deficit hawks are circling, hovering over QE2, calling it just another inflationary bank bailout. But unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the ban...

The latest report from the agency shows that more than 120 institutions - nearly all of them small banks - have missed their scheduled quarterly divid...

With the latest lawsuit, taxpayers might again ask why the Federal Reserve was so eager to bail out all of AIG's deals linked to problematic CDOs at 100 cents on the dollar. The largest beneficiary of that largess was Goldman Sachs.

WASHINGTON -- A plan by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to limit lobbyists' influence over the $700 billion bailout program has yet to get off the...

The timing couldn't be better. With the Obama administration readying new compensation guidelines for certain financial companies, Forbes reported Tue...

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation's largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money. The department o...

The government has finally acknowledged something it wanted to keep secret six months ago: Which banks are in the worst financial health. It's now ...

The U.S. Treasury's financial-rescue plan remains an incomplete operation, plagued by backlogs and a lack of clear mission, a government watchdog said...