Economy

"Roughly 90 percent of the credit card lawsuits are flawed and can’t prove the person owes the debt,” said Noach Dear, Brooklyn civil court judge.

Standard Chartered has maintained that only $14 million of the $250 billion in transactions violated federal regulations.

The wealthiest man ever to secure a major party nomination for the presidency is crying foul because President Obamau2019s campaign has dared to explain how Romney made his money.

More than 70 years after its creation, social security benefits are keeping the elderly above the poverty line.

The recent stock market volatility could have been restricted by a tax on transactions that would make the small quick score less attractive.

In a little noted speech to his constituents in May, Paul Ryan decried the u201ccrony capitalismu201d that he said, prompted the big bank bail-outs of 2008 (though he himself …

New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries u2013 including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique u2013 raise an important question: Will these windfalls be a blessing that brings …

This crisis is not going away. Officially begun late in 2007, nearly five years later, no end is in sight.

TIm A. Wise: US food reserves at a historic low as biofuels, climate change and speculation exacerbate food crisis.

Money is the least of our problems. Itu2019s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us.