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What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 7)

By the start of the 1960s, banking in America was in a state of flux.

Boundaries were being blurred - especially those separating...

The New Crisis Warning Just Issued to the Federal Reserve

Before the housing market crash, economists warned that record low-interest and mortgage rates were fueling a housing bubble....

What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 6)

Our last chapter was about...

What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 5)

Chapter Four ended as a ...

FOMC Preview: Will the Fed Continue its $85B/Month Bond-Buying Program?

Investors will be looking to the Federal Reserve Wednesday for clues about how long it might continue its bond-buying program aimed at pushing...

Bernanke Testimony to Congress: The World According to the Federal Reserve

The U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testimony to Congress ended ahead of schedule today (Thursday) in the Senate, reiterating the same...

The One Question We Must All Ask Ourselves

Rampant profiteering by Congress and greedy bankers is forcing us to weigh the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune against honesty and...

Out of Answers, Federal Reserve Can Only Offer Empty Rhetoric

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is scheduled to issue a statement at 2:15 pm. today (Tuesday), but don't expect anything other than more...

Jim Rogers: "The Fed is Lying to Us"

Despite statements to the contrary, the U.S. Federal Reserve has continued to pump money into the economy, says investing legend Jim...

How to Fix the U.S. Housing Market

If this week's economic reports showed us anything, it's the fact that two years into what's supposed to be an economic recovery, the U.S. housing...

Two Ways to Tell if the U.S. Economy is Ready to Get Back on its Feet

The U.S. economy has been crippled by the financial crisis. And regardless of what policymakers try to do to spur growth, it will hobble along lamely...

Question of the Week: Readers Respond to Money Morning's Financial Reform Query

A vote on financial reform Monday failed to produce the 60...

How to Stop Greedy Banks From Killing U.S. Capitalism

A white paper on bank reform delivered to Congress and regulators last week by the Association of Mortgage Investors - the powerful lobbying group...

JPMorgan Close to $1.4 Billion Tax Refund Deal, Joining Long List of Companies Cashing In

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JMP) is close to a deal that...

Having Served its Purpose, TALF Could Soon Turn a Profit for the Fed

The Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) program has succeeded in reviving the consumer loan-backed market and may even return a...

Apple Goes "Island-Hopping" in its War Against Google

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on Tuesday took aim at rival Google Inc....

Senate's Plan for Financial Reform Promises Nothing But Political Gridlock

U.S. senators Christopher Dodd, D-CT, and Bob Corker, R-TN, have

Senate's Proposal Calls for Fed to Increase Its Role in Consumer Protection

The Senate's journey to agreement on a financial reform bill could lead to consumer protection responsibilities remaining in the hands of the Federal...

How "Hot Money" is Wrecking the U.S. Banking System...

When the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) released its list of "problem banks" this week, 702 institutions holding $402.8 billion in assets...

Money Morning Mailbag: How the Demise of Glass-Steagall Helped Spawn the Credit Crisis

Question: Please address why the removal of the