After last week’s strong finish, it’s no shock that Wall Street’s starting to make encouraging noises about “recovery.” But when did...
Policymakers need to start being more honest about how the U.S. debt works.
It's an age-old debate among the members of Congress. How do...
The dollar is a weapon, built up by the U.S. debt to foreign nations and protected by U.S. military might.
But the U.S.'s financial foes...
The U.S. government, for the first time since 2008, is officially a minority stakeholder in American International Group Inc. (NYSE:
In the mid 1990s, when I was working as a U.S. Treasury advisor to Croatia, I met with the managers of the U.S. Treasury's debt. In what...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is once again worried that we're going to hit our debt ceiling (this time by May 16), and the resultant...
Pretty much everyone but U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke sees that inflation is returning: After all, even Bernanke's favorite...
If the record $81.7 billion in profit that the U.S. Federal Reserve reported for 2010 was turned over to taxpayers directly, there's no doubt it...
The U.S. government and American International Group Inc. (NYSE:
Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve's efforts to spur lending by keeping interest rates low and pumping up liquidity with quantitative easing, banks...
Bonds have provided a welcome safe-haven for investors seeking shelter from the financial maelstrom of the past two years, offering steady returns...
Faced with a faltering recovery, the U.S. Federal Reserve today (Tuesday) will again consider ramping up purchases of
It seems like every six months the debate over China's currency, the yuan, reaches a fevered pitch: The Washington bureaucrats
This week's decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to buy Treasuries in an effort to prop up borrowing is further proof that the economy is worse off...
A bipartisan Congressional watchdog panel reviewing the government's bailout of American International Group Inc. (NYSE:
The threat of deflation has been making its rounds as inflationary measures like the
In the last few weeks, international investors spooked by the budget crisis in Greece and the turmoil in southern Europe have been flocking into the...
The U.S. Treasury Department today (Monday) announced it would start selling up to 1.5 billion shares of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:
During the 1990s, the inflationary policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve fueled a tech-stock bubble. When that bubble burst, the Fed inflated a...
The odds are good that China won't dump its holdings of U.S. Treasuries anytime soon. But by substantially reducing its purchases of U.S. debt - or...