Although the Fed delayed raising rates this month, it has signaled it intends to wean the U.S. economy off its unprecedented monetary stimulus. Now the question is whether Congress will take the handoff.
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Regulators fined Wells Fargo US$185 million for fraudulently opening up more than two million fake deposit and credit card accounts. Will the victims get their pound of flesh from those responsible?
Research suggests how your online friends experienced the housing collapse affected how you perceived your local real estate market.
New research shows how the financial crisis led to a dramatic shift in poverty across Europe.
The Italian banking system is on the verge of a crisis. Direct state intervention is needed to solve the problem.
There are plenty of reasons to reject the consensus that Brexit will be costly to the UK economy.
A plummeting pound, bonds at an all time low, stocks and commodities in freefall. The UK just spooked the world.
The island, which missed a debt payment earlier this month, faces ‘disastrous’ consequences if a solution to its spiraling crisis isn’t found soon.
Sanders and Clinton have been trading blows over who’d be best to reform Wall Street, but new research suggests they may not have the ‘authority’ to do it.
Markets have been on a rocky ride all year on concerns another recession looms. Here are a few lessons we can learn from the last one.
The Hollywood flick recalls subprime’s role in the 2008 financial crisis, but, by helping more low-income households buy a home, the loans can help ease the affordability crisis and homelessness.
GE’s push into finance nearly crippled the company, just as the broader US shift in that direction almost collapsed the global economy.
US regulators chose to reveal detailed information to the public about the state of the banks. They were able to be so transparent, without triggering a run, because of a strong fiscal backstop.
The FDIC – and taxpayers – lost US$90 billion selling almost 500 failed banks. Where did all those banks go?
Bankers are back to their old ways, putting the global economy at risk just six years after standing at the brink of another Great Depression.
From their inception, austerity policies have been promoted as necessary for economic recovery. Throughout Europe, the demand to cut spending and deficits is presented not as a choice but a requirement…
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the repercussions were so severe that when the time came to mount a response, policy makers were as surprised…
The word “speculation” carries a connotation of negativity. And it’s probably fair to say that pretty much every financial crisis since the tulip mania of the 1630s can be attributed to some sort of mass…
The results of the long-awaited European Banking Association (EBA) “stress tests” show that 25 banks were found wanting. Altogether, the banks were about €25 billion short of the capital required to be…
After a relatively benign period, market upheaval has returned. The main stock market indices have been falling across Asia, Europe and the US, while safe-haven assets like gold have been on the rise…
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