Shares of Wal-Mart ( WMT : Wal-Mart Stores, Inc News , chart , profile , more Last: 43.32 -0.87 -1.97% 8:20pm 08/30/2007 …

Last week, Lending Club disclosed with impeccable timing it raised $10.26 million in Series A venture capital funding, a hefty sum considering the company launched at…

As I expected, help is on the way on all sides. The private sector and Congress should create new, affordable mortgage products that would help some homeowners refina…

Main Points: "This environment is certainly not getting better," he said. "Something tomorrow could turn it around, but this is a first step in series …

The Magic of Accounting: Last quarter Wells Fargo reported record net income of $2.28 billion, up 9 percent from a year earlier. Read the footnotes to its latest quar…

Last week, the mini market meltdown was met with major intervention from central banks around the world. This generation has never seen the kind of synchronized movemen…

One thing you can be assured, goverment intervention in financial panics is always assured. And since the depression, most MATURE economies of the world have survived (…

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A VERY basic chart showing the manufacuring of ONE basic traunch of MBS. The new Henry Ford way of creative financial manufacturing. MBS holders buy in the secondary ma…

A great chart exposing how the financial machinery works on the banking side.

A rating firm said U.S. property-casualty insurers face little impact on their portfolios from the subprime mortgage market collapse, but European carriers could face …

U.S. banking giants Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wachovia Corp. The banks paid higher interest rates for the loans than if they'd borrowe…

Rising delinquencies on subprime mortgages have triggered a credit crunch in the mortgage business. More than 50 lenders have already gone bankrupt and investors in the …

For over three years, colleagues and myself have debated what has unfolded in the financial markets with differences of opinion. Although we all agreed that 2007 would…