We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of Pete Rose's lifetime ban from baseball. Because of the ban, the guy who has the most hits, games played…

A week ago, the TARP inspector general, Neil Barofsky, added up all the potential taxpayer costs for saving the financial system, and the figure…

I was in the Midwest over the weekend, and I saw a couple of signs that looked like this:…

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is really putting himself out there these days. It could be something of a campaign to keep his job, but there's also…

Our weekly podcast, After the Bell, is now available. This week, Bob Moon examines the healthcare debate raging on Capitol Hill. He also looks at…

Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said today that about 25 financial companies are "systemically important." Too big to fail, in other words. What? 25? Fi…

The Alliance for American Manufacturing sent us this chart today, noting that aside from oil imports, the U.S. trade deficit is dominated by…

Fans of Liverpool Football Club are gripping the edges of their seats today, but not because it's two-all in the last seconds of overtime. The cl…

Last year, then Chairman of the SEC, Christopher Cox, banned naked short selling of shares for a period. Discussion of nakedness in the markets s…

With the Dow up 188 points and finishing in the 9000s, Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson did a quick-and-dirty straw poll of economists….