Economy News

Robert DeNiro’s played a lot of crooks in his time — from Vito Corleone to Al Capone — and now he’s tackling yet another: Bernie Madoff.

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European politicians are running out of time. After more than a year of failing to sufficiently handle the the Greek sovereign debt problem, the crisis is spreading to Italy in a meaningful way.

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Talk about drama. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou emerged from an emergency meeting on Wednesday evening with a bombshell:

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Each year, Phoenix Marketing International analyzes national data on millionaire households to reveal which U.S. states attract the most high-income families. This information is being published first on CNBC.com.

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The results of a poll released today reveals that more than half of all Germans have absolutely no confidence in the euro and want to bring back their national currency, the Deutschmark.

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