While news of substantial third-quarter GDP growth and a slowing of new unemployment filings is a good sign for the overall economic recovery, there are still areas that remain decimated by the financial collapse. No sector continues to struggle as much as residential real estate, with new home cons...

It’s been one year since the government began doling out money from the US Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program—last fall’s investment into the beleaguered financial sector. After a year, the TARP is back in the public spotlight once again; it turns out that the TARP may finally be reapi...

Executive compensation has been a hot button issue in the ongoing debate on regulation of the financial sector. Since the 1980’s and the days of “Reganomics,” financial regulation has been avoided like the plague, but all of this has changed in lieu of the recent economic turmoil. With increas...