financial crisis

The US government's tab (and the taxpayers' tab) for fighting the financial crisis grows week by week, and the potential bill is far into 13 figures already.

On Oct. 14, the U.S. Treasury announced it would spend $250 billion of taxpayer money to buy shares in U.S. banks.

The feds hope that the infusion will resolve the financial crisis paralyzing the economy. Here, in 300 words or less, is everything you need to know about it.

In Mexico, the peso has plunged, unemployment is rising and foreign investors started pulling money out last month -- all fallout from the economic crisis in the U.S.

Dan Grech reports from Mexico.

It may be years before we can judge the government's success in fighting the financial crisis. But an early assessment of Henry Paulson's Troubled Asset Relief Program is already taking shape.

Foundations and charities throughout the metropolitan New Orleans area are keeping a close eye on the nation's financial crisis and tightening their belts as their endowments shrink....

As awful as this financial crisis is, at least inflation's been kept at bay. Kai Ryssdal talks with Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson about a time when that wasn't the case.

World leaders convened Saturday for a second straight day hoping to tackle a financial crisis that has ricocheted across the globe and left the United States and other countries on the brink of deep recessions.

The fallout from the financial crisis is striking nonprofit groups and charities fast and hard.

Some economists believe that economic models are dated and deficient, and they're looking for theories that would help make sense of the financial crisis and global economy.

Janet Babin has more.

President-elect Barack Obama is set to meet on Friday with his economic brain trust to discuss ways to combat the worst financial crisis in decades.