The seeds of the Great Recession included a lot of greed, fraud … and some technology.

Global debt is on track to hit new highs this year.

We spoke with Grant Thornton economist Diane Swonk about the diary she kept throughout the financial crisis in 2008.

Tom Russo, former general counsel at Lehman Brothers and AIG, talked to us about how the fall of Lehman Brothers could have been stopped.

There was a time when most banks were small. They liked it that way. Today, just six banks manage more than half the assets in the entire U.S. banking industry.

The investment bank's failure triggered nearly 80 bankruptcy proceedings involving hundreds of its subsidiaries.

Lehman's collapse is, to this day, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Why are the mortgage giants still under government control?

U.S. economic growth surged in the second quarter to 4.1 percent on an annualized basis. But that’s decidedly out of sync with the overall slow economic growth we’ve seen year after year since the Great Recession. A new report from economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests the financial crisis of 2008 shaved 7 […]