Without much fanfare or public notice, Senator Barack Obama has embraced a central element of the Republican agenda: the treatment of corporate dividends.

If there’s a silver lining to bear markets, it is that they make stocks cheap for the next wave of investors. But so far in this downturn, it isn’t working out that way.

The Long-Term Capital fiasco momentarily shocked Wall Street out of its complacent trust in financial models and was replete with lessons, but the lessons were ignored.

As banks tighten lending standards, alternative sources are stepping into the breach, organizing and processing loans among family, friends and business associates.

The ailing Wall Street bank is working toward a radical solution in its fight for survival: Splitting itself into a “good” bank and a “bad” one.

The ailing Wall Street bank is working toward a radical solution in its fight for survival: Splitting itself into a “good” bank and a “bad” one.

Governments are overcoming their wariness of private funds as they struggle to finance public improvements.

Cleaning up road kill and maintaining runways may not sound like cutting-edge investments. But banks and funds with big money seem to think so.

Cleaning up road kill and maintaining runways may not sound like cutting-edge investments. But banks and funds with big money seem to think so.

The fundamental problem in the American economy is that, for years, people treated rising asset prices as a substitute for personal savings.