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Despite glum financial forecasts, many families are taking the challenge head on — making sacrifices and implementing cost-saving strategies. Melissa Tarun, mother of two from Helot... (article)
A Citigroup rescue: $20 billion and insurance for $306 billion in risky assets (episode)
"The credit card business is not that attractive to potential buyers. So Citigroup would be stuck with the rubbish, as it were, and all the good stuff is sold off." --Mela...
Call the office door etchers — President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is starting to take shape. Actions of Democratic officials continue to suggest that presidential nomination riva...
When Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Governor Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, ran for the top offices in the country, the White House's glass ceiling looked like it might be shattered. Bu...
Why do so many otherwise rational individuals make irrational decisions when it comes to money? Why do shoppers overspend when using credit cards, but manage to stay in a budget when ...
Henny Sender of the Financial Times and Peter Morici of the University of Maryland provide two takes on the U.S. government's plan to inject $20-billion into Citigroup. "This i...
With rumors that Senator Hillary Clinton will accept the key position of secretary of state in President-elect Obama’s Cabinet, the nation is starting envision what American diplomacy will look like after President Bush.
"Whether it's true or not, there's a belief in the the Obama camp that Tim Geithner was for bailing out Lehman Brothers and just was overruled." --Jackie Calmes on Robert Ru...
"Johnson was never a match for the man from Camelot, but Lyndon Johnson had to make that most abrupt of transitions during Thanksgiving, 1963." --John Hockenberry on Thanksg...
With the election behind us, the Republican Party is a little worse for wear. From prominent conservatives, such as Colin Powell and Christopher Buckley, wandering off the reservation...
"If Citigroup went down we would be looking at problems in financial sectors just about everywhere." --Andrew Walker speaking about the future of Citigroup