


Gold Rallies 1 Percent after Brussels Blasts
Gold rallied more than 1 percent on Tuesday as investors sought assets seen as a haven from risk after deadly bomb attacks hit Brussels airport and a rush-hour Metro train in the Belgian capital. The attacks killed 34 people, according to public broadcaster VRT, and...
Fed Policy has Cost Savers $7.5 Billion: Study
The past 10 years have been very good for investors, but not so much for savers. Since 2006, the S&P 500 stock market benchmark has surged more than 60 percent (and more than 200 percent if you count from the time the bull market began in 2009). In the same period,...
Why was No One Prosecuted for Contributing to the Financial Crisis?
“This gags me.” So said Elizabeth Warren in response to a Quora user, who asked, “What do you think are the real reasons that no Wall Street executives have been prosecuted for fraud as a result of the 2008 financial crisis?” Her answer, which she expounds on more...