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  • Money talks, Barack. Are you listening?

    With the fall of the Dow, Obama has the chance to change the national conversation to something more important than moose hunting.
  • Wall Street's very bad day

    The Dow drops 500 points -- and marks the beginning of a new stage in the presidential campaign. Palin who?
  • Bear territory blues

    It's official: The stock market bulls have left the building. What took them so long?
  • Market crashes. Dow down 400 points. Blame Obama

    Investors didn't panic because of the astonishing jump in oil prices or the sharp uptick in unemployment. They're just terrified at what a President Obama might do to the capital gains tax rate.
  • Fun and games with inflation numbers

    Why does the U.S. government say energy prices fell in April, when everybody knows they're going up, up, up?
  • The crash in Republican economics

    Not even George W. Bush or Alan Greenspan can sugarcoat America's financial meltdown. Will the next president seize the chance to rethink how we run our economy?
  • Super insurance-commissioner-man to the rescue!

    As capitalism teeters on the brink, a New York state regulator gives the stock market new reason to believe.
  • The rate cut heard around the world

    In one swift move, Bernanke rescued not just Wall Street, but Shanghai, London, Mumbai and Tokyo too.
  • The politics of an economic nightmare

    No U.S. leader wants to admit how bad the damage may get from the one-two punch of the credit crunch and housing slump.
  • Has Ben Bernanke announced his true allegiance?

    The Federal Reserve's surprise move sent the stock market into a tizzy glee. Shades of the Maestro?
  • No August vacation for the stock market

    Asian markets are in free fall and Hank Paulson warns of an economic "penalty" -- and that was before the release of the latest bad housing data
  • A crude way to do businesss

    Suddenly hedge funds are selling off their oil positions to raise cash. Is it a slowing economy they are afraid of, or something even worse?
  • Postpone the rise of the machines

    Bad news for our would-be robot masters: Computers are befuddled by recent stock market behavior.
  • Is Countrywide running scared?

    A brand new SEC filing from the nation's biggest mortgage lender suggests dark times are ahead.
  • This is your subprime brain on drugs

    After another very bad day on Wall Street, let's blame Mother Nature for wiring us to be suckers for dodgy loans
  • Hillary Clinton: It's the mortgage lending industry, stupid

    Campaigning on the economy in New Hampshire, the senator from New York delivers a major speech on the housing mess.
  • A random mob on Wall Street

    Plummet, surge, plummet, surge -- why can't stock traders make up their mind?
  • Wall Street waits for the next "tape bomb"

    Jittery days are here again, as traders twitch uncontrollably at each new item of bad news from the credit markets
  • Stocks plunge as investors flee risk

    The continuing aftershocks of the housing bust send Wall Street's moneymen running for cover.
  • Harry Potter and the rebounding stock market?

    A magic quarter for Amazon has investors hoping for a rebound after a dreary Tuesday. Will their futures prophecy come true?
  • Go, go, go, Godzilla; the Chinese stock market version

    And now, another edition of "Mindblowing economic news from China"
  • The Shanghai squeeze

    To get rich might be glorious, but the revolution of rising expectations is no dinner party.
  • A good reason for markets to be nervous

    Forget about China or the pronouncements of Alan Greenspan: The new home sales numbers are the real economic story of the day.
  • The dominoes stop falling, for now

    Most Asian markets get hammered, but China rebounds, and the U.S. stabilizes. Meanwhile, the housing market takes another blow, and U.S. economic growth gets downgraded.
  • Monty Python stock market report

    In the wake of Tuesday's meltdown.
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