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Elizabethan Drama

Clarification Appended: June 30, 2011 Here’s some good news for consumers who feel themselves trampled by soulless banking and credit giants: on July 21, a new consumer-protection agency will open its doors in Washington, with the mission of making everything from mortgage documents to credit statements fairer and easier to understand and generally giving the little guy more power against the financial corporate juggernauts. Here’s the bad news: it’s not clear that President Obama will be able to appoint anyone to run it

Hack Attack

So who would you like to hack today? A bank, a website, a corporation or perhaps a government agency that’s rubbing you the wrong way

Price-to-Rent Ratio: Where Houses Are the Best Buy

The Homebuyer Tax Credit was a sweet little perk for the housing market, but now it’s over. That leaves home prices to rise — or fall — on the merits

Is Australia’s Economy Dangerously Dependent on China?

If you’re ever in the australian outpost of Port Hedland, make sure you’ve got a high limit on your credit card. The dusty downtown of this isolated hamlet of 20,000 may be a few deserted streets lined with bank branches, the local cultural scene confined to drinking halls and pool tables

Microloans vs. Microinsurance

There are higher-yielding varieties of groundnut than those that farmers in Malawi tend to plant, but getting them to switch is tough. Better seed is pricey, increasing their risk

You Are What You Owe

Americans are forever grumbling about government gridlock.

Credit Default Swaps: The Next Crisis?

As Bear Stearns careened toward its eventual fire sale to JPMorgan Chase last weekend, the cost of protecting its debt, through an instrument called a credit default swap, began to rise rapidly as investors feared that Bear would not be good for the money it promised on its bonds. Not familiar with credit default swaps

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