There has been so much misinformation about so many of the different financial crises facing the country over the last few months. Unless one is paying very close attention to what is being and not being said, one can become totally confused. ...more

March 28, 2009

Two plans to attack the credit crisis are careening into each other. The Obama administration is trying to reignite lending by enticing private lenders to buy the toxic assets that have been stuck on the balance sheets of banks. ...more

March 28, 2009

Cara Hacht knows stress when she sees it, and the chiropractic practitioner knows the effects it can have on the body. ...more

March 25, 2009

Wall Street got the news it wanted and responded with a rally that propelled the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points. ...more

March 24, 2009

Tim Truitt of New Port Richey says if the federal government gave the bailout money to ordinary Americans they would end the banks' bad-debt problems. ...more

March 21, 2009

Bernard Madoff's wife could theoretically claim more than $100 million in assets - and should forfeit it all, according to federal prosecutors. ...more

March 16, 2009

More than 45 years ago, as attorney general of Minnesota, I joined with the attorneys general of 21 states in asking the Supreme Court to ensure that counsel would be appointed for all people facing criminal charges who could not afford it. The court answered our plea. Yet today, its historic decision in Gideon v. Wainwright is at risk. ...more

March 14, 2009

Prosecutors want to know how Casey Anthony is paying her legal bills. ...more

March 10, 2009

Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union and GTE Federal Credit Union, two of the Bay area's biggest credit unions, plan to merge, the companies announced Tuesday. ...more

March 6, 2009

An accountant who submitted false statements to a bank so he could get loans for his business and his clients was sentenced today in federal court to one year and a day in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. ...more

February 25, 2009