Two billion dollars lost in a flash by JP Morgan. Is this an argument for the Volcker rule – cracking down on speculative bets by the banks?

A former Bain Capital man and Romney supporter says income inequality shows our economy is working.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says we’re in an economic depression and we’ve got to act to end it. He joins us.

Two years after the BP oil disaster, we look at the environmental consequences in the Gulf, and the consequences for BP, whose business is booming.

On the eve of the tax filing deadline, we ask the question on everyone’s mind: is this the best tax system we can come up with?

We’re looking at American debt and deficit and how to really, responsibly, bring it down, with economist Simon Johnson.

New websites putting up small jobs for bid, or micro-labor, are on the rise. Clean my compost bin. Buy my dog food. Job-hungry Americans are bidding low. Where does this go?

The economy’s getting traction. How’s the Fed chief done? How’s he doing?

With David Cameron, British Prime Minister in the States this week, we’ll compare how the U.S. and U.K. have tackled economic crisis. Austerity versus stimulus.

Home prices are down. Mortgage rates, rock bottom. If you’re young in America, does it, will it, make sense to buy a home?

Online shopping. We point, click, and buy. Then what happens? We’ll investigate.

Chinese hackers and American R&D. Is this country’s future being stolen?

Freddie Mac bets billions against American homeowners. It’s shocking. What should we learn here?

Mitt Romney says he pays a tax rate near 15 percent. Nice, if you can get it. We’ll look at a controversial proposal to tax the super rich on their income and their wealth.

It’s the American dream. But upward mobility is falling way behind Europe’s and Canada’s. What’s up?

How to survive the “it’s okay unless it collapses” economy. We’ll look at your prospects and your money in 2012.

Military veterans, back from Iraq and Afghanistan, who can’t find jobs. We’ll look at the challenge, and what it means to serve your country and then not find work.

How do you misplace $1.2 billion and lose billions more? Jon Corzine and the lessons of the MF Global collapse.

The middle class is shrinking. So are middle class neighborhoods. We’ll look at the archetypal American neighborhood, in retreat.

Italy’s crisis and the end of the Berlusconi era. We’ll have the latest from Rome and the global markets.