MONTREAL - The head of Canada's largest pension fund manager and one of Quebec's most influential figures is joining another pillar of the province's business community.

Michael Milken says the subprime mortgage debacle has little to do with the bubble in high-yield, high-risk corporate bonds he helped inflate two decades ago.

In testimony before the United States Congress House Financial Services Committee at the close of February 2008, United States Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) Chair Ben Bernanke acknowledged for the first time what many in finance, banking, and government poli

Tomorrow, Faith Burns of Minneapolis is scheduled to lose her home. The bank says she's fallen behind on her monthly mortgage payments and is foreclosing on her. We traced the path of Faith Burns' mortgage to Wall Street.

It's extremely difficult to put a positive face on the housing market these days. From rising foreclosures and delinquencies to slumping sales, to curtailed mortgage lending -- especially the crunch on jumbo mortgages -- the data each month have been rel