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The US Treasury is close to a deal to prop up the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose crumbling finances have put the US housing market in jeopardy and threatened to turn an economic slowdown into a...
By KELLY EVANS, BOB DAVIS and TOM LAURICELLA A jump in the unemployment rate to 6.1% in August, the highest in nearly five years, underscored the economy's fragility and deepened political debate over whether a second...
Former Fed chief says government needs clear process of handling bailouts Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan says the government should only bailout a failing company if it poses a great threat to the entire...
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has earned a reputation as a maverick among central bankers, dissenting from the majority at each of the five meetings in 2008 at which interest rates have...
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