Fed Chair Ben Bernanke called for banking supervisors to pay "close attention" to compensation practices as they examine the soundness of financial…

In my humble opinion at least:…

The US auto industry is really sucking wind, if Steven Rattner, the Treasury's auto adviser has it right. Bloomberg quotes him saying $21.6 billion…

John Carney of Clusterstock thinks they do. He's talking with Kai Ryssdal today on Marketplace. They'll chat about AIG and some other things, but…

Things are looking up for Blockbuster. Earlier this week, on the Marketplace Morning Report, we talked about how BBI is struggling with its debt…

Paddy Hirsch here. Scott is out today and I'm doing my best to fill his shoes. My regular gig is editing Marketplace's New York Bureau, which means…

Congress' passage of the Bonus Tax Bill has incited as much blogging rage as the AIG bonuses did. OK, maybe not quite as much, but there are still…

Back in July we had a good old fashioned run on a bank here in California, complete with lines of panicky depositors around the block. The bank?…

I have the day off tomorrow, so I won't be posting to the blog. But I have a very capable replacement – Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch. …

In an interview about to air on CNN, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner admits he should've known about the AIG bonus problem sooner. "It's my…