Topic: Alan Greenspan

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- President Bush finally called for global action to stabilize the global markets, but is anyone still listening?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Congressional members said they are considering possibly creating a new U.S. agency to buy bad debt considered to be the center of Wall Street's woes.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Will Black Sunday 2008 replace Black Tuesday 1929 in the mythology of financial disaster? It sure looks like it.

LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Now the recession watch in Britain is getting really serious. Punch Taverns, the country's largest operator of pubs, a classic symbol of English life, has decided to scrap its dividend to shareholders after a drop in sales of more than 3 percent. The company blamed "challenging trading conditions."

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The United States faces a second wave of financial crisis as the slowdown starts to spread to emerging markets.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says more U.S. and overseas banks may end up in government rescue plans.

WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy is a roaring bear, not a charging bull, these days. The bear is hungry and bad-tempered, and its rage is getting worse.

PARIS, July 14 (UPI) -- As France celebrates Bastille Day, Europe and the United States pursue clashing responses to the financial crisis.

The Al-Basaer newspaper of the Association of Muslim Scholars in its Thursday editorial said Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in one of the most troublesome tight spots he has been in since coming to power.