Worldwide indexes reclaim that losing feeling,  The skinny on those TARP repayments and two curiously conflicting assessments,Four factories for one McMinimum Wage house and plenty more…

Here are three things you can buy now to capitalize on spiking unemployment, crashing banks and the tumbling dollar. Earlier this week, Chairman Bernanke and his cronies on the U.S. Federal Reserve did the unthinkable, indeed the unimaginable.

About a year ago, my father asked if the Merrill Lynch bond he was thinking of investing in was okay. I looked it over … noted its high rating … and said sure. A little less than a year ago, I was speaking to a vice president of Bank of Nova Scotia. I was asking him about the bank’s exposure to the subprime crisis. He said it was negligible.