Two Years Later: The U.S. Economy Still Needs a Spark Plug

The capital markets have recovered nicely from the depths of the financial crisis’s despair, though skittishness remains. What the economy sorely needs now is the next big thing — perhaps a new technology that boosts business …

Face-Off on Stocks: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup


Two years after Lehman Brothers collapsed and put the financial crisis into meltdown mode, Wall Street and the financial industry are still struggling to rebuild from the ashes. But as the economy recovers, are bank stocks good buys? Here are the bull and bear cases for three of the nation’s biggest banks.

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Could Terrorists Create a Market Crash?

September marks the anniversary of two events that rocked the markets: the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008. Today, many people worry about the possibility of a terrorist attack on the financial system. International economist Rex Ghosh, who has written a novel about just that, discusses the threat.

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Could Terrorists Create a Market Crash? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:15:00.

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