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  • Looking to get yourself a chunk of the bailout? Wondering how to go about it? Vanity Fair's Bruce Feirstein has the form you need to fill out.

  • Dec 3, 2008

    Pink slips

    Corporate layoffs have been fast and furious, more than a million so far this year. Last month alone the rate of job cuts at U.S. firms was the…

  • Goldman Sachs could raise money as an Internet bank to cushion the firm against a possible 2 billion dollar loss. Here's the story.

  • Dec 2, 2008

    GM vs. Toyota

    Part of the Detroit bailout debate has been whether GM, in particular, has too many brands….

  • The Big Three are facing pressure to close the sale today on a federal bailout. Top brass will deliver turnaround business plans to Congress in…

  • Scroll down to the end of the NBER announcement on the recession, to where they list the members of the business cycle dating committee and you'll…

  • The group that gets to decide these kinds of things, the National Bureau of Economic Research, announced today that we're officially in a recession…

  • Nov 27, 2008

    Two charts…

    One to help you wrap your heads around how much we've all got invested in the bailout pie….

  • Pretty bad, apparently….

  • Mortgages aren't the only financial instruments that get turned into securities. Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains how companies make…