List of Finance and Banking articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Let It Ride
When taming volatile currencies, policymakers are trying to rein in forces they can't control -- much less understand.
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The Deficit Debacle
It has long been fashionable in foreign capitals to criticize the Bush administration for not showing more economic leadership in cutting its budget deficit. But what would happen if the United States got serious about putting its economic house in order? The political bloodletting and instability that would ensue would make the world wish it had kept quiet.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Prime Numbers: The Plastic Revolution
The rise of the credit card.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Hindsight: Advice for the New Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben S. Bernanke will have some big shoes to fill when he succeeds Alan Greenspan as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve on February 1. Always one to help its former authors, FP combed through its archives to offer Bernanke some tips -- one of which will sound awfully familiar to him.
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BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images Decline of the Dollar
Don't believe everything you read on the Drudge Report. Well into the next few decades, the global economy will still be all about the benjamins.