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A Harvard professor is reaching out to white collar criminals including Madoff in an attempt to understand what led them to commit their crimes.

Dave Says: What is the best way to work child support payments into the budget and when it comes to owning a home, a 15-year mortgage is more beneficial.

Health-care reform's latest defeat hangs on whether the insurance mandate is a 'tax' or a 'penalty.'

Instead of extending unemployment benefits, why not pay the monies to businesses to be used only to hire personnel, which will boost production, increase the number of taxpayers and in turn increase happiness and wealth in this country?

Exclusive: Morgan Stanley called Wall Street analysts to an unusual meeting with its fixed-income chief to reinforce its stellar performance and possibly boost its share price.

To raise desperately needed cash, the U.S. Treasury raided government pension funds in past debt ceiling fight showdowns--as well as a Wall Street bailout fund. 

Nasdaq's chief executive made remarks in a meeting with NYSE shareholders earlier this week that suggested the Justice Department was likely to approve a proposed NYSE takeover.

Insurance industry officials at the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) say the earthquake in Japan could prove to be one of the costliest to insurers "in world history."

Opponents say Wisconsin is in surplus, not in deficit. They also say corporate tax cuts caused the deficit. Wrong on all counts. 

When will the shock value of steep market reactions cease to entertain? How many will learn to embrace the notion that perhaps sentiment has caused prices to fall - not values?

Featuring @BrianOverby  &  @MNKahnQuick Takes Pro Market Technician Michael Kahn Analyzes the S&P 500:SPX was trading at 1,897.

Dave Ramsey answers reader questions about personal finances.

Angry traders and investors are bombarding Nasdaq officials with demands that the exchange make good on losses they say were incurred during the messy execution of the Facebook IPO.

Big gun investors John Paulson, Steve Cohen, Anton Schutz and Eddie Lampert all made surprising investment moves this past quarter investors may want to take note of, according to Wall Street research shop SNL Financial.

The markets may not see an initial public offering from Ally Financial until next year, a company source says.

Major Wall Street firms are bracing for a major white-collar crime crackdown known as the “October Surprise,” an effort to bolster President Obama’s re-election chances this fall.

Gasparino: Morgan Stanley's head of wealth management is working to stem a broker revolt over the company’s new technology system that contains many glitches. 

John Thain will have an uphill battle selling the CIT Group anytime soon, particularly to a big U.S. bank, and it has nothing to do with the décor of his office.