On his first trip to the Middle East, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's message this week will be similar to the one he delivered to Chinese officials a month ago: your investments in the United States are safe. ...more

July 13, 2009

Florida returned more than $173 million in unclaimed property during the past budget year. ...more

July 3, 2009

AVON PARK Garbage collection for Friday, July 3 will be moved to Thursday, July 2. Other garbage collections will remain the same. ...more

July 2, 2009

Banks that received taxpayer bailouts had a lower average level of loans outstanding at the end of March than a month earlier, the Treasury Department reported on Monday. ...more

June 2, 2009

Let Freedom Debt minimize your debt. ...more

May 11, 2009

The GOP has announced its intentions to rebrand the Republican Party and is seeking input from the public, so here is mine. ...more

May 8, 2009

I tried borrowing enough money to get my debts paid off once and for all, but the banks said that it wouldn't work and they would not give me the bucks. They said you can't borrow yourself out of debt! I argued with them, that the House and Senate say that its good for the country to do this and have bailed out the banks so what do the banks know about lending money anyway? ...more

May 8, 2009

A Pahokee man who used stolen front-end loaders to dislodge ATMs at 11 banks in nine counties, including Polk and Manatee, is in the Leon County Jail, authorities said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Nasedra Lumpkin, 33, after a 15-month investigation into the string of ATM thefts the agency said netted more than $1 million and caused $575,000 damage to the banks. ...more

May 7, 2009

Chrysler LLC's largest banks reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. government to exchange $6.9 billion in secured debt for $2 billion cash, say three people with knowledge of the negotiations. ...more

April 29, 2009

Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. will need to raise more capital based on preliminary results of their government-run "stress tests" - unless they succeed in appealing the findings, according to two people familiar with the matter. ...more

April 29, 2009