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In an auction on Tuesday, the Treasury sold $30 billion of short-term securities at a 0% interest rate. Investors were willing to accept 0 return to stash their cash. What does that say?

Earnest is a Silicon Valley start-up that has launched to offer consumers unsecured loans with rates as low as 4.25% APR. Loans are up to $30,000.

You wouldn't expect to find an efficient bank paying strong dividends and very few bad debts these days. But Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK) is just that!

The conventional wisdom says that inflation is very bad. It makes everything we buy more expensive and decreases the value of our currency. But there are times when inflation is good for you.

By publicly revealing that they sent requests to a bunch of hedge funds to keep trading records related to the Euro currency, the U.S. government is in effect telling hedge funds not to profit from any overvalued situations, such as the Greek debt

Today the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and four other central banks lowered their rates with unprecedented coordination. The question is, will it work?

Most people contend that the AOL / Time Warner merger was the worst ever. My money though is on the BSX / GDT deal. Talk about value destruction!!!

With technology ever expanding the use of Earth's resources are expanding. We are no longer strictly focused on the lead, carbon, iron, zinc, gold, and coppers. Science is exploring a whole other realm of the periodic table.

Citigroup has agreed to a settlement with the NY Attorny General's office that will see it buying back about $7.5 billion in securities from individual customers, charities and small businesses. This is good news for anyone still stuck with illiquid auction rate securities.

A comparison of the Dow Jones Industrial Average today to Japan's Nikkei Index leading up to and after its peak in 1989. There are a lot of similarities and some differences. What do they mean?

Here's our recap of the key financial events that occurred over the summer for all of you that spent July-August at the beach. Think something else should be mentioned? Feel free to comment it below.

I'm not familiar with Peter Boockvar or his investing record but I thought it was interesting that analysts are not starting to talk about more drops in the markets. Before the talk was about whether we had hit a floor at 8,000.

I'm taking a hand and predicting this Friday's employment numbers will be better than expected. So good, the Fed may decided not to cut rates.