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In a clever marketing move an investment company is awarding prizes to the three people who lost the most money in the Wall Street debacle.

Public anger is growing at the way in which senior executives are paid while average workers are struggling to get by.

It surely felt more like auctioning pieces of Wall Street history than a typical art auction.

The second part of the BBC's brilliant series explaining how the governments and bankers managed to caused the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

The lesson of the market meltdown of the week that was September 15th was one of irresponsibility at every level of a credit-happy-pay-later nation.

Thirty-five years of philosophical changes in the banking industry, accepted by society, guided the current monetary disaster.

In September 2008, the financial world fell in chaos. Banks were closed and businesses lost billions on the stock markets. But how did the world react to the downturn?

The current financial crisis, started on tree-lined streets rimmed with homes, has blossomed into a full-fledged recession that threatens to indelibly change the U.S.

The global financial crisis is an ongoing issue which put a number of countries into a recession and the major stock indexes into a downward spiral.

EMC's IPO of VMware's shares surged following its debut today.

Toxic assets and major losses have resulted in forced marriages between investment and commercial banks, producing a new roster of bulge-bracket financial institutions.

Developing countries with large savings have funded advanced economies with high consumption patterns to the detriment of the global financial system.

There are huge sums of money circulating in the world of Indian contemporary art. Paintings, photographs and sculptures are bought, sold and resold for millions.

Investment analysts at Morgan Stanley say the US economy is in recession, while analysts at Goldman Sachs warns such a downturn is now likely.

Mortgage fraud in America led to the recent crisis in the financial lending industry that was caused by misrepresentation and outright lies about income and employment.

Outstanding portfolio performance requires picking more winners than losers. Forecasting market trends accurately leads to picking winning stocks or commodities easily.

The Sierra Club works on many fronts to promote environmental health. From clean air and water efforts, to stopping sprawl and global warming, it covers a lot of ground.

Timothy Geithner has been busy buying Treasuries these days, so to have the federal fund target rate almost at 0. So we know what he's doing now, but where has he been?

In 1930, the height of the Great Depression, US unemployment stats were equal to today's. Many people are now unemployed or underemployed...including the rich and famous.

In a new series of articles on Al Jazeera.net a development economist is suggesting that the USA is behaving like a developing country of the worse kind.

Many economists believe the 2008-2009 U.S. recession is over, but a long road to recovery still lies ahead.

As efforts percolate in Congress to water down much of the Investor Protection Act of 2002, a new investors handbook could become an investors Bill of Rights.

Now that AIG, GM, and Bank of America are clamoring for their slice of the bailout pie, Congress and President Bush are in search of answers.

The U.S. House of Representative's financial regulatory reform bill was passed on December 11, 2009 and would increase federal oversight of U.S. financial markets.