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Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan will meet EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia in Brussels early next week.

Bill Gross of PIMCO has published an essay on how to reform the country's mortgage lending regulation.

Whilst some students new to this core knowledge in the subject get a bit confused with the diagrammatic representations of markets, the basic principle is quite simple and involves a lot of common sense.

I have written often over the past few years about the house of cards that is the American economy, but the events of the past week should frighten everybody.

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- It was Monday evening and the phone rang - again. It was probably the fifth time in two hours.

President-elect Barack Obama clearly won the 2008 presidential election because of the market meltdown.

Final Opportunities! Only two move in homes remain at Bowen Family Homesa Kensington Creek Manor.

A ban on sales of alcohol and heightened securities greeted Panamanian voters Sunday as a frantic and factious three-year presidential campaign finally went to the voters.

A regional advocate for the rights of the homeless says actions by Sugar Notch, Pa., officials to deny shelter to homeless men may be based upon fear and a lack of knowledge.

Steven Romick published quarterly letter for the quarter that ended on June 30, 2010.

Pedestrians stop to argue with Abu Rahman , Matt Sky and Julia Lundy as they stand in front of the site of a proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero in New York City on Aug.

Now is the time to buy a new home. Mortgage rates are low, new homes are being offered at attractive prices, and one home builder is giving buyers every reason to say "yes." Gold Key winner Donven Homes is freezing prices, giving buyers personalized timelines for closing and move-in, and offering free, beautifully finished basements or credits ...

Now is the time to buy a new home. Mortgage rates are low, new homes are being offered at attractive prices, and one home builder is giving buyers every reason to say "yes." Gold Key winner Donven Homes is freezing prices, giving buyers personalized timelines for closing and move-in, and offering free, beautifully finished basements or credits ...

"Family Guy": Turns out, it's not as unfunny as we've been saying it is . Photo: The conversation's the same every time: tell someone you don't like Family Guy , and they'll express shock.A They'll suggest that you give it another shot, or that you might've been in a bad mood while you watched it.A You try and tell them that that's not it, that ...

Steven Romick of FPA Crescent Fund just released his Q2 shareholder letter. We highly recommend you to read it.

Is it good or bad that the Dodd-Frank financial reform law leaves much of the responsibility for fixing our financial system to federal regulators? Matt Yglesias makes a case for the necessity of giving government watchdogs a measure of latitude.

Despite finding evidence of fraud, the Washington Post says the Securities and Exchange Commission has decided it won't charge Moody's, one of the credit rating firms that seriously misjudged the mortgage-backed securities at the heart of financial meltdown.

Are low interest rates storing up more trouble for the future? This column argues that low interest rates have been necessary to sustain large current-account imbalances.

A conversation on this topic has broken out in another comment thread, so I thought I'd bring it to the front here: Should we eliminate the home mortgage interest deduction? -- The tax break will reduce federal revenues by $131 billion in 2012 -- but is it effective in fostering home ownership? : For a half century--until the recent real estate ...

I figure most people underestimate the dear costs of geographic immobility. Hence the obsession with impeding outmigration .