The Federal Housing Administration backs nearly a third of all new mortgages. But its cash is dwindling, and its losses are mounting fast. Is another bailout in the cards?
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British leader Gordon Brown has suggested the G-20 countries place a tax on foreign exchange transactions to generate revenue, but he's finding little support for the idea
When it comes to finding quality, affordable health insurance, few have it worse than small-business owners and their workers shopping for coverage on the open market
Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the money manager's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying
Regulators shut down two banks in Florida and one in California on Friday, boosting to 123 the number of U.S. bank failures this year as loan defaults rise in the worst financial climate in decades
'm here to inform you that J.J. Abrams' Star Trek will be available on DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday. It's probably already on your calendar, so consider this a friendly reminder.
We've got legislators who want to balance the state budget on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable in Michigan, but we don't think that maybe we could scrape together a few more pennies for the collective piggy bank?
Small businesses didn't lay off as large a share of their workforce as big businesses did at the beginning of the year, so they're not seeing as big a profit rebound now.
Credit card reform gives consumers better notice — prompting the necessity to actually read letters from your credit card company. It has not given us better rates.
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