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From stocks to house prices, profits to banks, right now, just about everything seems to be falling. Amid the carnage, though, there's at least one measure you can't keep down: fear. Wall Street's favorite measure of market volatility and investor jitters, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility...
As a measure of how volatile investors reckon markets will be in the short term, the sharp sell-offs seen in recent months have sent the VIX to its eye-popping highs. The index is calculated from the price of options - a deal to buy or sell an asset at...
But her demands for more money suggest that, as Bair told TIME, "more banks will fail." The FDIC's list of troubled banks jumped from 90 to 117 in the second quarter and will surely grow again. Bair is worried about all the new responsibilities her agency is taking on...
The U.S. was not immune to those ailments as the decade of the '20s reached its operatic climax, and it suffered from some others that were peculiarly its own. A stubborn agricultural depression had blighted the American countryside since the conclusion of World War I, crimping the incomes of the...
There are no equivalents to those circumstances today. The "real" economies of most major nations remain robust. No major war has disrupted international trade in more than a half-century. On the contrary, the explosion of global commerce in the past several decades has underwritten prosperity not only for developed...