Sheila Bair

One can but admire a woman brave enough to pick a professional career in which she will be surrounded and greeted with patronizing glances from self-assured males. This was the call made by Sheila Bair, who was appointed Chairman of the FDIC (Federal...

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES "The Biggest Loser" Fashion expert Tim...

The guest list this week on “Real Time With Bill Maher” sounds like the formula for fireworks. The roundtable guests will be actor-director Ben Affleck, whose new movie is “Argo”; Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.; and Gov. Brian...

Toward the end of Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field) predicts that “All everyone will remember of me was that I was crazy and that I ruined your happiness.” This is partially true, though in recent years some have disputed......

Travelers gripe about having to remove shoes while going through airport security or undergoing full-body pat-downs. But imagine being the Transportation Security Administration screener who has to deal with thousands of grumpy passengers daily or must...

The final set of monthly jobs data before Tuesday's presidential election provided both campaigns fodder to drive home their closing arguments on jobs and the economy, with President Barack Obama's team arguing the numbers show the economy on the...

"The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job-training," Vice President Joe Biden famously quipped of his future running mate in 2007. That's exactly what President Barack Obama did in his first two years of office, according to a...

Anca Safta never missed a payment on her loan to expand her Lutherville home. But that didn't stop Safta's mortgage servicer from citing her this year for failing to pay, reporting her to credit agencies and threatening to foreclose. "It was just a...

Gold: Trading now at $1,743 an ounce, up 1.8% from Tuesday. Dow Jones industrial average: Trading now at 11,866.39, up 1.8% from Tuesday. Fears subside. Stocks are rising as investors anticipate the results of the latest Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday....

Gold: Trading now at $1,484 per ounce, down 1.3% from Thursday. Dow Jones industrial average: Trading now at 12543.83, up 1.0% from Thursday. Ending a good week. Stocks are up again Friday morning on some strong manufacturing data. If the......

An increase in delinquencies in government-backed Federal Housing Administration loans was probably the largest contributor to the overall pickup in national delinquencies during the second quarter, according to a report published Tuesday by analysts at...