Filed under: International markets, Good news, Management, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of New York (BK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, U.S. Bancorp (USB) It is being reported today in the Business Journal that the safest bank in the United States is Wells Fargo & Company (...

Bad day on Wall Street today, folks. The S&P 500 closed at the lowest level since April 1997. The NYT explains: Analysts said that after fevered speculation last week about bank nationalization, many investors now expect the government to move in that direction, despite statements from the White Hou...

Your LibertyWeek hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome you back with a rousing discussion of the much-debated Stimulus to Nowhere and the website where you can evaluate it, StimulusWatch.org. We get an update from the billionaire’s club known as the World Economic Forum in Davos, S...

Image via Wikipedia … it’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses … Ever feel like social networking is like stumbling around in the dark with a million things to pay attention to, people tellin...

It's always fun to predict what's going to happen. The risk of being spectacularly wrong is very high, but that's what makes the exercise so entertaining. 'Tis the season for dwelling, quickly, on what we learned last year -- de-leveraging is really painful and when gas prices are high, people want ...

An increasingly upset Mr. Cheney stated categorically that Mr. Wallace, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Caroline Kennedy, and even Paris Hilton could all go “bleep” themselves. Although such enthusiastic support for onanistic love comes during the twilight of his publi...

Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Morgan Stanley (MS), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Wells Fargo (WFC) Wonder what happened to the hard earned money you paid in taxes? I can't account for all of it but $540 billion that went to six financial institutions is being...

The spectacle of ordinary people coping with extraordinary forces runs throughout the cinematic work of Steven Spielberg. And now Spielberg himself is dealing with an unexpected crisis: A credit drought that could kill his studio. The famed director and producer, whose credits include Jaws, E.T.,, a...

Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Financial Crisis This post is part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst in Money 2008 feature. In a year of financial chaos, how can on...

Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Rants and raves, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW), Wells Fargo (WFC), IndyMac Bancorp (IMB), U.S. Bancorp (USB) Yesterday's Major League All-Star Game went into extra innings (15 total) before the American League w...