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For having such a big impact, the recession is kind of low on drama. It's hard to draw juicy stories from a tangle deregulation, subprime mortgages and credit default swaps. Which may be why the creative minds behind theater, film and television are taking inspiration from good old-fashioned...

British newspapers and the BBC are reporting that Allen Stanford may have avoided scrutiny of his bank in Antigua because he was a drug informant for American anti-drug agents. Stanford's assets have been frozen as part of an investigation into an alleged $8 billion fraud related to the sale of...

Your odds of actually collecting any money as a tax informer are probably pretty low, and the cases can often take years to work their way through the system. Nonetheless, the IRS does offer a finder's fee to people who are instrumental in busting tax cheats.Last year, the amount that tax...