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Byline: Greg Brown Bank of America (BAC) is definitely a glass half-full (or empty) stock. It has made huge strides since the horror of the credit crisis, snatching up major [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is taking government regulators to task for not letting more big financial houses fail back during the credit crisis. Every rich-country [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Ever wonder why your little credit union will pay you a nice, fat 3.5 percent return (or more) for holding your spare cash in a checking account, [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Wall Street's biggest banks - reportedly including Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse - are trying through third parties and private meetings with Treasury [...]

Byline: Greg Brown FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair is predicting that the bank failure rate will increase tenfold, according to a U.S. Senator.Bair said up to 500 more banks could fail, [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) defended his view that the major U.S. banks should be allowed to fail, in contrast to indirect criticism of his opinion from Federal [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Neil Barofsky, the White House-appointed watchdog over the $700 billion Congress-approved bank rescue, warns that the so-called TARP money is ripe for fraud.The special investigator general for [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Former Fed Chairman and longtime free-market icon Alan Greenspan now says nationalization of U.S. banks might be the least bad way forward in the ongoing financial system [...]

Byline: Greg Brown Wilbur Ross says he believes his private equity operation will soon buy a bank, possibly within six to 12 months.'We will end up with a bank, there [...]

Byline: Greg Brown General Motors cant catch a break. After writing a glowing piece on GMs prospects in the spring, financial newspaper Barrons has reversed course, telling investors to get [...]

Already in a pit, financial stocks are about to get clobbered again, warns Oppenheimer banking analyst Meredith Whitney.A number of factors will converge on large-cap bank stocks shortly, including a [...]

Byline: Greg Brown As new evidence emerges that major money market funds have significant exposure to the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) crisis, worried investors are withdrawing billions from their banks [...]