Cleaning up
A proliferation of money-laundering methods is making it more difficult for U.S. regulators to clamp down on crooks in the trillion-dollar-a-year business. But the government is cutting into criminals' bottom line.
Robert Trigaux
Feedback on the Fed's rate cut? What if ...
Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan is fed up. Four days ago, the Fed cut short-term interest rates by half a percentage point to help goose the slowing U.S. economy.
Loose change
10,459: That's the number of jobs cut at dot-com companies in December. It was the seventh straight monthly increase and the most jobs shed in a month since Chicago job-placement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas started keeping track a year ago.
Florida bonds were a winner last year
Money managers say conditions for bonds remain positive, but don't expect a repeat of 2000's strong performance.
Formal debt repayment plans aren't right for everyone
Q. I am thinking of signing up with a debt repayment company that I saw advertised on TV. What things should I consider?
Wolfsberg picks up where 'Know Your Customer' left off
The voluntary guidelines designed to combat money laundering in private banking operations are similar to those in the "Know Your Customer" proposal. And that worries privacy advocates who fear the guidelines eventually will be required of all banks.
