Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to prof...

Have the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession rearranged the basic structures of the global economy?To answer that fundamental que...

First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle is the sovereign ...

The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked e...

Ever since Greece's 1974 transition to democracy there has been constant talk of reforms. Major changes in its economy, society and polity have att...

Some members of the European Union (EU) initially viewed the financial crisis as a purely American phenomenon. That view has changed as economic ac...

The long-term trend in declining retirement security has been exacerbated by the recent turmoil in the financial markets, and underscores the need ...

Meltdown is the gripping account of the financial collapse that destroyed the West's investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and...