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If you became obscenely rich riding this bubble, I'm taking pleasure in your fall.

Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones industrials to a 936-point gain and finally offering relief from eight consecutive days of sto

Democrat Barack Obama proposed more immediate steps Monday to heal the nation's ailing economy including a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs.

Memories of salvaging and stealing to avoid going hungry are part of the legacy of the Great Depression. Some iReporters say they can't help but look at the current economy and feel the past holds lessons for the present.

The NBA is laying off 9 percent of its work force over worries about the U.S. economy, commissioner David Stern said.

The Nasdaq is up 6.38% to 1755, the S&P is up 5.99% to 953, and the Dow is up 5.87% to 8947. Leading sectors include: Autos +27.2%, Managed Healthcare +17.6%, Investment Banking & Brokerage +16.1%,

Iceland's have enjoyed four years of economic growth in excess of 4 percent as banks and businesses expanded abroad. Now, the three biggest banks have collapsed under the weight of about $61 billion in debts, 12 times the size of the economy.

Struggling credit card holders are to be identified to providers under a new industry-wide scheme

Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.

The British government injected an unprecedented 37 billion pounds ($63 billion) into the country’s leading banks Monday to avoid a full-scale collapse of the sector.