It sounds like something from a science fiction movie: a shadow world that exists alongside the one we know. But “shadow banking” – an unregulated, opaque world of financial dealings that functions alongside usual commercial banking practices – is very real. And the...
If you don’t show up on a Google search, do you really exist? As lines continue to blur between cyberculture and “the real world, ” the answer, in all too many situations, is “no.” And what that search reveals can make – or break – lives on many levels. Whether you’re...
It’s the kind of publicity Bank of America doesn’t need right now: a German –born intern at one of the bank’s London branches died after a long stretch of workdays without a break. So BofA, like other scandal-plagued US megabanks – is mounting new efforts to clean up...
This New Year is gearing up to open on a financial world that looks very different in some ways from the one just ending. Throughout 2013, we’ve been following the financial and investing stories that change our world and rock our assumptions. Here’s a year-end recap...
A new year is almost here, and with it come new opportunities for starting an investing career as Jason Hartman recommends. But if you’re looking forward to buying that first investment property in 2014, it’s important to remember that thanks to the mortgage meltdown...
