Crisis

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Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail provides a richly detailed, behind-the-scenes account of the unravelling of the financial crisis in the US in 2008. Read More

Philip Angelides, chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, said he planned to hold a series of public hearings, conduct hundreds of interviews and request or subpoena information from companies and government agencies. Read More

On December 26 2009 the famous Crimean city of Sevastopol saw yet another confrontation between Ukrainian and Russian nationalists. Read More

The city's pension funds hit $101 billion this week, rebounding after the 2008 banking crisis, according to the controller's office. Read More

"The irony here is it's as if there was an earthquake and the only buildings standing today are the buildings that were at the epicenter of the earthquake," the commission's chairman, Phil Angelides, said in an interview Thursday. Read More

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Who wouldn't remember when he or she first heard NEON CHRIST on the PEACE WAR Double LP comp? Read More

SEATTLE , Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- According to its own estimates, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the " FDIC ") will sustain losses exceeding $36 billion owing to the 140 banks that failed in 2009. Read More

NEARLY a hundred firms were told to "turn off the lights" today as Britain was plunged into a full blown energy crisis. Read More