Obama's 'August surprise': A 'gigantic' Main Street bailout?
August 6, 2010, at 12:30 PMThe Obama team is rumored to be working up an $800 billion mortgage-reduction scheme through Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
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Cell phones: The new credit cards?
August 3, 2010, at 5:53 PMAT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile want you to pay for your shopping trips using your smartphone. Will you?
Housing crisis, Round 2?
July 20, 2010, at 2:10 PMBuilders are getting gloomier as home sales drop. Will the housing market get worse before it gets better?
Homebuilder confidence falls: What now?
July 20, 2010, at 6:32 AMWatch a Fox Business report about how the lack of credit available for homebuyers and builders is affecting the housing industry
Could the Dow plunge to 1,000?
July 6, 2010, at 10:07 AMOne prominent market forecaster says the U.S. is on the precipice of the worst market crash in its history — ending in a three-digit Dow. Time to sell?
Fannie and Freddie: By the numbers
June 30, 2010, at 6:30 AMIt's the "mother of all bailouts" — the two government-owned mortgage providers have already cost taxpayers $146 billion. Analysts say that figure could grow to $1 trillion
How 1,300 prisoners got the home buyer tax credit
June 28, 2010, at 7:30 AMPrisoners have received millions of dollars in federal funds through the first-time home buyer tax credit program. How is this possible?
Wall Street's secret advantage: High-speed trading
June 28, 2010, at 6:12 AMThey're unknown and invisible to most of us, but electronic trading programs now rule the stock markets
The tax credit housing scam
June 24, 2010, at 10:47 PMAmericans, including prisoners, have taken advantage of the system and gotten houses unlawfully. Watch an ABC report
'Force me out if you can': Homeowners vs. banks
June 2, 2010, at 12:05 PMMore and more Americans are simply blowing off their mortgage payments. Are they just serving lenders their just desserts?
Bad mortgage? Walk away
June 2, 2010, at 8:19 AMWatch an MSNBC report about how some homeowners are beginning to "strategically default" on their houses
America's bigoted love of beauty
May 24, 2010, at 11:48 AMWe've barred discrimination over so many things, says Deborah L. Rhode in The Washington Post, so why is the unfair treatment of unattractive people still okay?
The big business of fake money
May 21, 2010, at 9:52 AMThe new $100 bill is the U.S. government’s latest bid to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters.
The Dow Jones 'flash crash': 5 theories
May 7, 2010, at 11:35 AMThe stock market lost more than $1 trillion in 15 minutes yesterday, before gaining most of it back. What triggered the "flash crash"?
The Dow's 1,000-point plunge: What happened?
May 6, 2010, at 4:50 PMSeemingly out of nowhere, the stock market plummeted in the middle of the trading day. Was it a technical error, or something more worrying?
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