Chairman of UBS's Group Americas division, Wolf was an informal adviser to then-Sen. Obama during his presidential campaign. During the financial meltdown, Wolf was often Obama's "inside source" on ...

Vice chair of the House Republican Conference, Rodgers (R-Wash.) is very critical of President Obama's handling of the crisis. She says the president did not take a very cooperative approach with ...

Cathy O'Neil taught mathematics at Barnard College before working as a "quant" (using statistical methods to predict patterns in the market) for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Disillusioned, she joined ...

Shortly before Obama became president, Romer, his incoming chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, projected that the $787 billion stimulus package would curb unemployment at 8 percent. (It has ...

Terri Duhon joined JPMorgan as a derivatives trader in 1994, after graduating from MIT. Four years later she was tapped to develop JPMorgan's credit derivatives business. She is managing partner of ...

The former chair and CEO of Wells Fargo, Kovacevich was a strong opponent of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), under which his bank was forced to accept a $25 billion capital injection from ...

A longtime economic adviser to Barack Obama, Goolsbee focused on developing economic arguments for tougher regulation of the financial industry.

Phil Angelides chaired the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which spent more than a year investigating the crisis and concluded that it was avoidable, and a result of excessive risk taking, ...

Our regulators are not up to the task of understanding the complexity of these institutions, warns Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas.

Can knowing the details of a crime alter the matchmaking process? Yes, says neuroscientist Itiel Dror. It's called cognitive bias, and it can happen to even the most competent expert.

Thoughts on freedom - and another impending trial - from Ernie Lopez. A Texas court recently threw out his 2003 conviction of sexually assaulting 6-month-old Isis Vas, who later died, though the ...

"This has got to stop," Anjanette Albert, whose son Derrion was killed in September 2009 after he was pulled into a fight and severely beaten. Footage of his death captured on a cell phone helped to ...

From acclaimed producer-director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and best-selling author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz ("There Are No Children Here"), an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn ...

Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside the deepest front in America's war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban: Pakistan. They uncover new details about border-crossing CIA-funded Afghan militias, ...

An inside look at what happened at the Jewish community center during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and more on the current state of the building.

It took the 2008 Mumbai attacks for much of the world to recognize Lashkar-i-Taiba's threat, but renowned French investigative judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere had for years warned of the Pakistan-based ...

How Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad has managed to hold onto power for so long

Newly released interrogation videos show David Coleman Headley, who admitted participating in the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, desperately trying to cut a deal with FBI agents interrogating ...

In the weeks after 9/11, Capitol Hill employees were on high alert. The Friday before she opened the anthrax letter, Grant Leslie, an intern in Sen. Daschle's office, received an unusual thank-you ...

Adam Davidson of NPR's "Planet Money" travels to Haiti to meet a man with an unlikely tourism plan to help turn around his country's economy.

Key to a successful interrogation -- being able to think quickly on your feet. How FBI interrogator Ali Soufan improvised a creative way to determine when one subject was lying.