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FBI Investigating Companies At Heart Of Wall St Crisis

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bu...

Bargains Everywhere: Japanese Banks Snapping Up Wall St Holdings

Washington Post | Blaine Harden | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business


Major Japanese banks, fat with cash and nearly free of toxic investments, are spotting opportunity in the global financial mess and snapping up substa...

McCain Gaffes Have Undercut Campaign Message

ABC News | JENNIFER PARKER | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


In recent days, John McCain has made a series of verbal gaffes that have undercut his campaign claim that he is the candidate who is ready to safeguar...

Outrage Over $2.5 Billion Bonus For Lehman Brothers New York Staff

The Independent | David Prosser | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business


Up to 10,000 staff at the New York office of the bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers will share a bonus pool set aside for them that is worth $2....

Democratic Leaders Negotiate Over Conditions For Bailout Plan

New York Times | This article was reported by David M. Herszenhorn, Stephen Labaton and Mark Landler, and written by Mr. Herszenhorn. | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business


Senate and House Democratic leaders said on Monday that they had reached an agreement on their conditions for approving a $700 billion rescue plan for...

Dollar Takes Biggest Hit In Seven Years From Treasury Plan

CNBC | Patti Domm | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business


Concern about the price the U.S. could pay to rescue the financial system is crushing the dollar and raises questions about whether the government cou...

Thomas B. Edsall

The Economic Collapse: Not A Free Shot For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


On the surface, the Wall Street crisis appears to favor Barack Obama's chances and to damage John McCain's. Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz...

Last major investment banks change status

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said Sunday it had granted a request by the country's last two major investment banks _ Goldman Sachs and Morga...

Democrats: "We Will Not Simply Hand Over A $700 Billion Blank Check To Wall St"

Washington Post | Lori Montgomery and David Cho | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


Congressional Democrats considering the Bush administration's emergency plan to shore up the U.S. financial system yesterday countered with their own ...

The Wall Street Bailout Plan: Questions And Answers

International Herald Tribune | David Stout Published | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business


News reports about the upheaval in the world of finance have been full of esoteric terms like "mortgage-backed securities" and "credit-default swaps,"...

Will The Bailout Work?

New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business


As the federal government steps to the center of the financial crisis, devising plans to take ownership of hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of b...

Chat With A Crazed Wall Street Investment Banker!

236.com | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business


Wall Street can't seem to decide whether the market is crumbling or we are having the BEST! YEAR! EVER! Yesterday stocks were tumbling despite bailout...

Financial Crisis Worsens As Investors Panic

New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ | Posted 10.18.2008 | Business


The financial crisis entered a potentially dangerous new phase on Wednesday when many credit markets stopped working normally as investors around the ...

Pelosi Orders Widespread Investigation Into Wall Street, Will Demand Testimony From Bush Admin Officials, Finance Execs

Politico | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered a broad, swift investigation of Wall Street and will demand testimony from Bush administration officials and ca...

Report: Wall Street May Cut 20,000 Jobs Over 2 Years

Reuters | Joan Gralla | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business


New York City risks losing more than 20,000 jobs in the high-paying financial sector over the next two years as the crisis in mortgage markets drives ...