A banking collapse on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been avoided, but the bailout plan is going to be painful for many bank customers there. Stavros Zenios, a professor of finance at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, outlines the plan.
A controversial new study out of Yale concludes that people who speak languages without future verb tenses like Chinese are better at preparing for the future than people who use a future tense like in English, French, and Spanish for example.
Last week, Bank of America announced that it would begin imposing a $5 monthly fee for checking accounts that use debit cards. Other large banks are expected to follow suit. We share listener comments.
A hedge fund is making lots of money using a new program that mines Twitter to determine emotions among the population to help decide buying and selling strategies.
The latest consumer confidence numbers are due out later today and they aren't expected to be great. Don Peck tells us how significant confidence is in today's economy and the impact of over-confidence during the boom time of the '90s.
Throughout the U.K., there is a growing sense that many young people are going to face more difficult financial times than their parents' generation did. We're speaking with personal finance guru Alvin Hall.
Jim Rogers, an international investor who is chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc., and author of "A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing," reacts to the tumult in the international markets.
The wealth gap between whites and minorities in the United States has ballooned to its largest ratios in decades, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
Charlie Herman, business & economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC, and Kai Wright, editorial director for ColorLines, give their analysis on the major stories of the week.
Italian government bonds and stocks fell sharply Monday, continuing a plunge from Friday.
Student test scores tend to drop along with a community's economy -- regardless of whether their own parents have lost their jobs. Beth Kobliner is here to explain.