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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the recent slowdown in economic indicators is most likely temporary. "It's more than likely a pause in the usual cyclical pattern," Greenspan said in an interview.

If the credit crisis is over -- and it most certainly is as measured by tighter credit spreads -- why aren't banks making loans to the people who need them most, American taxpayers? You don't have to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve to know that banks are behaving worse than Scrooge when it...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently talked about "green shoots" of economic recovery and declared the recession probably over, but some economists fear the worst is yet to come. As bad as the residential real estate crisis was for banks, the impact of failed residential mortgages could...