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Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to suspend foreclosures while the Obama administration crafts a housing plan to modify mortgages for troubled borrowers. Citigroup will halt foreclosures through March ...

Got a call from a guy I knew in high school recently. He was one of those wild guys, smart enough to do about whatever he wanted but crazy enough to take the hardest road to get there. I can ...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has powers vast and wide. But for him to go after Merrill Lynch & Co. for passing out bonuses is a bit of a stretch. I say, go for it anyway. The grounds he ...

Four K.C. attorneys make BTI list The 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team report honors four attorneys in Kansas City. Included in the 176-attorney list are Edward R. Spalty, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale; Rick E. Frawley, an associate with ...

Surety bonds; attorney

How will you know when the bear retreats and it’s safe to invest in stocks? Contrary to most Wall Street pundits and economists — who have a bent for being consistently bullish — you probably won’t know the right moment. ...

Dick Fuld, not a familiar name to most Americans, is nevertheless the poster boy for arrogant corporate greed. He may also be a catalyst for significant changes in executive compensation. Fuld is the former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers ...

Cut the tax rate on capital gains to 5 percent. Halve the corporate tax rate. Fund a new, super-strong Securities and Exchange Commission to monitor anything that’s traded, including the haziest derivative. Buy homeowners out of mortgages they can’t afford, ...

The parents are seated, the guests are smiling, and the officiate awaits the happy couple. A wedding is about to start. The groom looks dapper in his tux, a spring-like blossom pinned to his lapel. He’s a little nervous, but ...

Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago, on Feb. 12, 1809, the same day as Abraham Lincoln. What isn’t widely known about Darwin is that his work may have been moti-vated by a desire to prove that slaves belonged to ...

Eric Langan could run a U.S. bank, based on his $494,713 salary last year, according to President Barack Obama. Langan would rather stay in his job, overseeing 18 strip clubs as chief executive officer of Rick’s Cabaret International Inc. “A ...