It has been five years since the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law but if its critics have their way, it will not see a sixth anniversary. The law — aimed at preventing a financial crisis like the one in ...

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve agonized in 2008 over how far to go to stop a financial crisis that threatened to cause a recession and at times struggled to recognize its speed and magnitude. “We’re crossing certain lines. We’re doing ...

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WASHINGTON — In his final public appearance as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke took a moment to reflect on the 2008 financial crisis and compared it to a very bad car crash. During an interview at the Brookings ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. banks are ending the year with their best profits since 2006 and fewer failures than at any time since the financial crisis struck in 2008. They’re helping support an economy slowed by high unemployment, flat pay, sluggish ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.   The mostly positive first-quarter earnings ...

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WASHINGTON — A surge in earnings by the biggest U.S. banks at the end of last year made 2011 the most profitable time for the industry in five years. More earnings and fewer troubled banks suggest the industry has healed ...

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WASHINGTON — Hedge funds will face closer scrutiny under rules being approved Wednesday that seek to protect investors from risky trades and prevent another financial crisis. The rules were mandated under the financial overhaul law passed last year.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court won't stop the release of Federal Reserve Board documents identifying financial companies that received Fed loans to survive the financial crisis

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NEW YORK CITY — Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday named the companies that used its emergency loan programs during the financial crisis and revealing how much they borrowed.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve says it won’t ask the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision ordering the central bank to provide information on companies that had received Fed loans during the 2008 financial crisis.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government spelled out Thursday just how much the most expensive rescue of the financial crisis will end up costing taxpayers — as much as $259 billion for mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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