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The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.
Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.
The Obama administration’s pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000. The 25th through the 100th top earners at Citigroup, GMAC, American International Group and General Motors also must take more than half their compensation in stock, and at least half must be …
Big banks are roaring back. At crisis’ edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them.
Tough economic times bring out all sorts of pitches to make easy money. But the conviction Friday of the Midlands men who called themselves the 3 Hebrew Boys should remind folks of an adage: if an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Democrat Scott Maddox, running for agriculture commissioner, said Monday state officials shouldn’t even be considering offshore oil drilling in Florida waters.
Many pundits have opined that the American consumer is on the ropes, so far in debt that he will be unable to contribute to the economic recovery.
David Martin and Katie Martinelli have been like expectant parents waiting for the delivery of a noncommercial license for Ozcat Radio.
A little over a year ago, it looked as if fuel-sipping motorcycles might be the option for motorists facing increasing gas prices.
Jobs report: The economy is expanding again, so the recession is finally over, right? Try telling that to unemployed people.
Today is the first day of the rest of Anna Davlantes’ career. The anchor and reporter who has been off the air since the end of July, when she walked away from NBC-owned WMAQ-Ch. 5 after nine years , has emerged from contractual purgatory and is now free and clear to negotiate with other outlets.
Budget airline Ryanair has seen profits soar by 80% in the six months to the end of September.
The presidents of the nation’s major private research universities were paid a median compensation of $627,750 in the 2007-8 fiscal year - a 5.5 percent increase from the previous year - according to The Chronicle of Higher Education annual executive compensation survey.
Human Genome Sciences said early Monday that its experimental drug to treat lupus was effective in its second big clinical trial.
Abolition of property-all owned for public purpose. Happening? Not yet but gov’t is on the road to taking over mortgages which is certainly a means to that end.
If Western leaders were still puzzling over Iran’s approach to nuclear talks, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a timely tutorial.
Some new homes, developed by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now Housing Corp., are seen in the Beverly subdivision of Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday, Sept.
The housing industry has been the epicenter of the great national recession. No sector of the economy has been hit harder by the near collapse of the nationa s financial system and the implosion of sub-prime mortgages.
For American manufacturers, competing on price with companies that are exporting goods from a low-wage-paying country is nearly fruitless.
The teams from the Big South are reindoctrinated into the lore of college football once every fall.
The days of a football player getting his bell rung, taking a whiff of smelling salts and getting back on the field are gone.
Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy. Justice Sandra Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washington.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. reported Thursday that it plans to buy electricity from several proposed solar facilities and natural gas power plants, one of which would replace two aging generators in Antioch.
Each week, The Chronicle tracks the latest investments, fundraising, mergers and initial public offerings involving Bay Area venture capitalists and startups.
The U.S. faces the possibility of deflation for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, a threat that may prompt the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates near zero through next year.
St. Petersburg, Florida - The price of high speed internet can cost you hundreds, even thousands of dollars every year.
The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.
Banks reduced their borrowing from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending facility over the past week, and cut back on their use of other programs designed to ease the financial crisis.
Asian markets fell sharply Friday as weaker-than-expected reports about U.S. jobs and manufacturing heightened worries about an anemic recovery in the world’s largest economy.
The Federal Reserve plans new rules on bank pay to curb excessive risk-taking, which is blamed for sparking the global financial crisis and has triggered international demands for action.
As the commercial real estate market heated up earlier in the decade and lenders competed feverishly to issue ever-riskier mortgages, hundreds of bankers, investors, lawyers, brokers, appraisers, accountants and analysts flocked to an investors’ conference in Florida each January to celebrate their good fortune with lavish beach parties featuring …
