CREDIT CRUNCH

Backgrounder on Spitzer's efforts to save monoline insurers

Good Financial Times piece on sope of credit default swaps

Good dissection of how financial models used by Wall St. quants don't work in times of stress

Executives of the District-based Carlyle Group are holding crisis talks in New York today over the fate of their...

Watching the global economy right now is a bit like watching the lead-up to the Iraq war. Fearing that weapons of mass...

A Nottinghamshire-based training firm whose chief executive was killed in a helicopter crash ten months ago is going...

How does the world look to Rudolph-Riad Younes? One of the most original and astute international-fund managers in the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Managers who offshored call centre work and IT services to cheaper locations like India earlier in...

VIENNA (Thomson Financial) - The Austrian state industrial holding OIAG, which holds a 42.75 pct stake in Austrian...

(Reuters) - Shares in HSBC (HSBA.L: Quote, Profile, Research) rose on Monday on reports Europe's biggest bank was...

Never Too Many Stars For Jon Stewart After being surrounded by the dramatic heavyweight stars of the Oscars, Jon...

MADRID: Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero increased his tally of seats in Parliament but once again fell...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Fed is in a bind. The report last week showing a loss of 63,000 jobs in February was the...

Investors eye commodities prices NEW YORK - Wall Street fluctuated Monday as investors sifted through a range of...

Lee Tanner's troubles with the Internal Revenue Service began with a common mistake. While working for a dot-com, he...

I have been away from blogging most of the week as I have been traveling to Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Turkey.

In a recent analysis I argued that the historical pattern in the last 20 years of low default rates by state and local...

Today Martin Wolf of the Financial Times devotes his column to present my "12 Steps to Financial Disaster"...

The current housing recession, subprime meltdown and severe credit crunch in financial markets has many worrisome...

Free registered users of the RGE Monitor get access to most - but not all - of my Global EconoMonitor postings as well...

In a recent article I presented a scenario where – in twelve steps – the US and global financial system could...

Why did the Fed ease the Fed Funds rate by a whopping 125bps in eight days this past January? It is true that most...

The cover page on Newsweek magazine this week is titled "The Road to Recession". The fact that this cover...

Here is a piece from Time magazine: Nouriel Roubini turns bullish, in a fashion Posted by Justin Fox, Time magazine...