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"Inside Job" Filmmaker Charles Ferguson Hopes to Help Send Bankers to Jail

"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.READ»

It's Banks vs. Families, Who Will Come Out on Top? Q&A With Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren is Main Street's woman in Washington. A professor at Harvard Law School, she's researched the travails of the consumer credit market and the hidden bankruptcy epidemic for over 25 years. Not satisfied with ...READ»

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The $30 Billion Man

The White House proposes a new lending program to help spur hiring. READ»

Visualization: What's a Billion, Here and There?

With all this talk of billion-dollar bailout programs, one information designer creates a chart that puts it all in context.READ»

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Goldman's Trading Formulae Leaked by Quant Spy

Star bank holding firm Goldman Sachs has been getting its fair share of antipathy this month. First it was Rolling Stone's polemic against the bank; then it was BusinessWeek's sobering review of how the 140-year-old firm will be ...READ»

Bailouts and Stimulus Packages: Missing the Mark

22 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com What exactly was all this U.S. Federal bailout money—the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP)—supposed to relieve?   Let’s review the highlights First of all, ...READ»

The Double-Edge Sword of Auto Outsourcing

A complete lack of innovation . . . failed opportunities to show vision and innovation . . .complete failure to offer RELEVANT PRODUCTS to the average American public.  And now, let’s add another black mark on the record of the big ...READ»

Give consumers a voice in Detroit

The big three American automakers are circling the drain. Now executives from the automakers are pushing hard to acquire loans from the previously approved bailout of the financial markets. It’s an overture that was all but doomed ...READ»