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As the movement of money across borders comes to a grinding halt, governments can only manage the decline. Don't be surprised to see markets roll back to 1995 levels -- or lower.

Governments and central banks of the world's leading nations have taken unprecedented coordinated actions in the past month to help out battered financial markets and economies around the globe.

Governments and central banks of the world's leading nations have taken unprecedented coordinated actions in the past month to help out battered financial markets and economies around the globe.

Concerted efforts from the world's governments appear to have stopped a complete financial breakdown, so I no longer need this hedge in my portfolio.

Efforts by governments worldwide to stop a slide in financial markets haven't worked yet and the Federal Reserve and the U.S.

Treasury may have to seek out more dramatic measures.

Forget bolstering consumer and investor confidence. Governments and central banks may need to figure out a way to boost CEO confidence, too.

Forget bolstering consumer and investor confidence. Governments and central banks may need to figure out a way to boost CEO confidence, too.

The bailout didn't give the economy a psychological boost as was hoped. Consumers just aren't consuming. Commentator Robert Reich proposes a WPA-style solution -- put people to work on infrastructure and invest in schools.

A lack of appropriate and necessary banking regulation by governments around the globe led to the current economic crisis, according to a report by a body of leading economists and experts released Monday.

The SEC has toughened rules on short selling, the British government has banned shorting of financial firms, and New York's attorney general has launched an investigation into the shorting of financial stocks.

Bob Moon reports on why these actions were deemed necessary.