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Divided Decade
What did America buy with the auto bailout, and was it worth it?
Nov 13, 2018
About $80 billion helped save GM and Chrysler, but autoworkers and auto-dependent communities haven't fully recovered.
How auto industry towns are faring a decade after the bailout
Nov 13, 2018
We take a look at four cities whose fates are linked to Chrysler and GM.
How a piece of software helped fuel the 2008 financial crash
by
Molly Wood
Sep 17, 2018
The seeds of the Great Recession included a lot of greed, fraud ... and some technology.
Once "too small to thrive," now some banks are "too big to fail"
Sep 11, 2018
There was a time when most banks were small. They liked it that way. Today, just six banks manage more than half the assets in the entire U.S. banking industry.
Lessons from the financial crisis: risks, regrets, and learning to say "this is enough"
Aug 1, 2018
Chef and entrepreneur Peter Hoffman says there are risks he didn't take, "but there’s also the work towards coming to accept that — this is enough."
One legacy of the housing crisis: risky rent-to-own deals
by
Amy Scott
Jul 2, 2018
The contracts often saddle would-be homeowners with expensive taxes and repairs.
How the financial crisis changed the way we think about home
by
Reema Khrais
Jun 29, 2018
Designers, architects and the president of IKEA U.S. weigh in.
For public good, not for profit.
Who controls the data that fuels real estate deals?
Jun 5, 2018
A decade ago, the government told the real estate industry to start sharing its data. What has that meant for competition?
The best advice for college students unlucky enough to graduate into a recession: Be flexible
by
Scott Tong
May 24, 2018
While studies suggest recession graduates tend to fall behind their nonrecession peers in terms of salary and don’t catch up for 10 to 20 years, there are ways to catch up more quickly and make up the gap.
How good is it for the class of 2018?
May 23, 2018
This year's college graduates enter one of the best job markets since the Great Recession.