Travis Toth, left, an auctioneer of trustee sales for Fidelity National, reads descriptions of foreclosed properties offered for sale as potential buyers contemplate bids during a home foreclosure ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill July 19, 2007, in Washington. Bernanke was on his second day of testimony before the committee ...
Travis Toth, left, an auctioneer of trustee sales for Fidelity National, reads descriptions of foreclosed properties offered for sale as potential buyers contemplate bids during a home foreclosure ...
Business Pictures From 2007. Traders Michael Arenson, left, and Mark Frank react in the Standard & Poor's 500 futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Oct. 31, 2007.
Joint Economic Committee Chairman Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., holds up a report during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Oct. 25, 2007, in Washington. The report shows how the subprime mortgage ...
The headquarters of The New Century Financial Corporation is seen April 2, 2007, in Irvine, Calif. The subprime lending company filed Chapter 11 papers with the federal bankruptcy court and listed ...
Carol Mondesir participates in a protest in front of Ocwen Financial, a subprime loan servicer, Sept. 26, 2007, in West Palm Beach, Fla. The protest was held to bring attention to Ocwen Financial ...
Miss Universe 2006 Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza places a diamond-and-pearl-studded crown valued at $250,000 on Japan's Riyo Mori, the winner at Monday night's pageant in Mexico City.
A look at the 2007 Tour de France route, which began July 7 in London, England, and finishes July 29 on the Champs-Elysees, in Paris, France. The race spans four countries -- England, France ...
The pack climbs the Iseran pass during the 9th stage of the 94th Tour de France cycling race between Val d'Isere and Briancon, French Alps, Tuesday, July 17, 2007.
Well, the crisis came two months later with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and much else besides. I don't claim to understand all of this, but it has been a fascinating ride, and it ...
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier stands guard with the backdrop of the setting sun at Narayanpur, near Agartala, in India's northeastern state of Tripura, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.
Vicki Holster of Glen Rock spits a cricket during a contest at the annual pest controllers convention on the Cook College campus of Rutgers University, Aug. 21, in New Brunswick, N.J. The contest ...
Talia Coppola and her dad Joe Coppola are seen in this 1987 snapshot. "It was at one of his infamous summer pool party's! I think it shows just how in love with him I was!!," she...
Greyhound offers free bus tickets home to runaway kids ... Photos of the week. 11 / 21. Back image_gallery ... Royal Bengal tigers play in the water at a pool at the Nehru Zoological Park in ...
HSBC to cut headcount by 35,000, shed $100 billion in assets ... a government shutdown while crippling the health care law that was the signature accomplishment of President Barack Obama's first ...
The severly damaged side of the stricken Costa Concordia is visible after the parbuckling operation succesfully uprighted the ship around 4 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2013, in Isola del Giglio, Italy.
Photos of the week. 6 / 27. ... and Republican members of the House of Representatives rally after passing a bill that would prevent a government shutdown while crippling the health care law that ...
Ghyslain Raza, of Quebec, Canada, performs a Star Wars mock battle using a golf ball retriever light saber in a video recorded in November 2002, and then released onto the internet by his friends.
Iraqi police, firefighters and bystanders gather at the scene after a car bomb exploded in the Karadah district of Baghdad, Iraq, May 2, 2005, killing at least three and injuring many others ...
American magician David Blaine atop the London Eye Aug. 28 as part of his latest challenge for the program David Blaine: Above The Below. Blaine aims to spend 44 days starting in early September ...