Author : EW News Desk Team

Former executives at Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s offered damaging critiques to the Senate Permanent Sub-Commttee on Investigations of the practices at the two credit rating agencies during the...

One of the mysteries of the financial crisis is how mortgage investments that turned out to be so bad earned credit ratings that made them look so good. One...

Well, things must definitely be a little boring in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives, Well, things must...

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big. Since 2007, it has sold inexpensive but rugged laptop computers to the governments of less-developed countries. ONE LAPTOP...

The little item we're going to bring you in a moment illustrates two important points: the first is how incredibly close and fast-moving the "revolving door" is between the power...

Still spaced out from the follow-up "Featured Analysis" on the crucial derivatives vote in the Senate Agriculture Committee - Still spaced out from the follow-up "Featured Analysis" on the...

Financiers, lawyers, traders and accountants gathered this week at the annual International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference in San Francisco ... By Thursday night they needed to put out...

Rare earth elements are minerals crucial to military hardware and the latest wind turbines and hybrid gasoline-electric cars, meaning they are now, and will become increasingly, crucial for the...

The German labor market has been surprisingly bulletproof during the economic downturn, outperforming the United States and already beginning to tick downward, falling to 8.5 percent in March from...

We're on George Soros' mailing list, so we're taking advantage of it to give our readers the entirety of his take on SEC v GSachs, which appeared in today's...