Police in southern Indiana are looking for a wedding crasher who took off with a wire bird cage that held cards for the couple filled with cash, checks and gift cards.
The parent of American Airlines plans to issue new stock and debt in a move to raise more than $500 million as it heads into the slower fall and winter travel season.
Two Australian teenagers who found almost 100,000 Australian dollars ($87,000) in cash during a fishing trip have handed it over to police — after spending some time thinking about it. The pair discovered the money earlier this month near the New South Wales town of Nimbin — a center of hippie culture where members of numerous communes annually celebrate a festival to promote cannabis use.
Mexican authorities say they have found at least $5 million hidden in a shipment of ammonium sulfate at a Pacific coast port, and are still counting the cash.
The Meli family once ran a Flint warehouse that kept perishable goods from spoiling. Now it seems their money — nearly $200,000 — is stuck in storage.
Colombian customs agents say they seized $11.3 million in cash from a shipping container in the nation's largest cargo port.
A New Jersey social studies teacher has been charged with accepting cash from students looking to improve their grades.
California authorities say a man caused a traffic jam when he threw money onto a Los Angeles-area freeway and people dashed into the lanes to grab the cash.
With Cash for Clunkers rolling on after the program was extended, new car dealers are smiling, but left out are companies and organizations whose business models are built on used vehicles.
The popular "cash-for-clunkers" program may be a well-timed shot of adrenaline for the economy, but it's not a prescription for a lasting recovery.
Acting with unusual haste, the Senate readied a $2 billion fill-up Thursday for "cash for clunkers," an economy-boosting program that sent car buyers storming into formerly deserted auto showrooms at a pace that quickly exhausted its $1 billion funding.
On Friday, a visitor to McEleney Autocenter in Clinton, Iowa, turned in his old, rusty Ford truck and drove away with a brand new Hyundai Accent.
Not all auto recyclers are relishing the government's new cash for clunkers program, which requires car dealers to destroy the gas-guzzlers they get as trade-ins from new car buyers.
Two new technologies offer the promise that corn growers could turn their cobs into cash.
Timothy Fleming used to hide cash all over the house — tucked into lapel pockets, secreted within hollowed-out pumpkins, nestled within cake tins above the fridge. That is, until he discovered the horror of a trashed cash stash.
It would be a fitting use for this quasi-cash to send it right back to the government. But for most state workers, it likely won’t get that far.
Global Cash Access Holdings Inc., which provides ATMs for the gaming industry, said Wednesday it has repurchased about 5.8 million shares from one of its founders, Robert Cucinotta, at a per share price of $6.25 and a total price of $36.2 million.
Like many Americans, Judy Orlando, a nurse in LeRoy, N.Y., had racked up a mountain of credit card debt. Divorced and raising five children, she was carrying a total balance of about $30,000 on her five credit cards.
A look at a plan passed by Congress to provide consumers with rebates of up to $4,500 to turn in their gas-guzzling cars and trucks for more fuel-efficient vehicles.
A look at proposals in Congress to provide consumers with rebates of up to $4,500 to turn in their gas-guzzling cars and trucks for more fuel-efficient vehicles.
When credit was flowing, stock portfolios were rising and jobs were plentiful, Americans bought and bought, stuffing their closets with everything from designer shoes to coats.
A 10-year-old boy picking up litter in Alton, N.H., found a backpack stuffed with more than $8,000 cash. Arie Johnston, of Dover, was helping his grandmother with her town's annual roadside cleanup when he spotted the burned backpack Saturday. He told Foster's Daily Democrat his first thought was that someone had killed someone for the money.
Our tallying up the government’s bank bailout programs brought a bunch of fresh questions — starting with the Fed’s massive lending program pumping more than $1 trillion in fresh cash into the banking system. Just how does the Fed “drain” that money when the banking system stabilizes again?
Federal drug agents plan to review video of a freeway chase in San Diego to identify motorists who haven't turned over thousands of dollars in cash that fleeing suspects threw out of their truck.
A Leipzig man was forced to traipse through the Munich airport naked after a taxi driver took all of his possessions when he couldn't pay his fare, daily Bild reported on Friday.
While police continue to gather evidence, traders and store owners in the Stockholm area are concerned over a possible shortage of cash following the spectacular robbery of a cash depot south of the city.
To hear the shouts of the masses about the performance of our President, it would be easy to miss that he is just over an eighth into his first term.
NEW YORK -- At the Greenwich Village restaurant Commerce, cash is off the menu.
A Croat thief has handed back his loot to his victims and given them a 300-Euro bonus. Alfred and Erika W., a retired married couple from Vienna, were robbed of 850 Euros after stopping at a motorway rest station on their way to Croatia in June.
A bid by a husband and wife chess Grandmaster team to enjoy a few days at a chess tournament in Calcutta in India ended after their passports and holiday money was eaten by rats.
"Cash for clunkers" was a party for U.S. auto sales in August, but the hangover began before the month had ended, analysts said.
An Ohio man is dead after his car was struck by the vehicle of a man whose drivers license has been suspended since 2006.
The noose is tightening. Keep only three months operating expenses in a bank, six months for businesses, and keep $5,000 or more at home in small bills for emergencies with your gold and silver coins. Let this be a lesson to you. They are preparing for currency controls.
interesting article on benefits of cash flow
ATLANTA — Although the Cash for Clunkers vehicle trade-in program officially ends on Monday, it became clear on Friday that car buyers who wait that long may be disappointed.
For love or money; we'll take money.
We see them all the time when installing software, EULA's. End user license agreements. Typically, standard boiler plate, yada.... yada... Click OK to agree. OK or cancel. We all hit OK, right, because otherwise we can't access the site or software.
Private-banking clients in the U.S. and Europe continued to withdraw their cash, though Swiss levels were broadly stable and there were some inflows from Asia.
Three-quarters of banks automatically enroll consumers in their "overdraft protection" programs without formal permission, and more than half of banks manipulate the order in which checks are cleared to trigger multiple overdraft fees, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Cor …
A motorist stopped by police in eastern Jutland showed himself to be an offender well-known to them with 81,000 kroner worth of fines pending on the books – which he promptly paid in full to the two officers at the scene.
Berry pickers have discovered a large sum of money hidden in the forest outside of Växjö in southern Sweden. Police are investigating the identity of the person who stashed the cash, which amounts to at least 100,000 kronor ($14,000), reported the Smålandsposten newspaper.
Shocked security guards had 150,000 Euros handed back to them after a policeman saw the cash slide out of the back of an armoured car as they transported money in Vienna.
VideoUncertain fate for "clunker" program (01:53) Report
Think of "cash for clunkers" as a sort of bizarro twin of that "bucks for banks" program from last autumn. You know, the one where Congress authorized $700 billion to keep financial clunkers on Wall Street up and running.
Update below. The White House and Congress may be giving the "cash for clunkers" program a reprieve, but one can't help wondering how many dealers and customers will have the confidence to go forward at this point. Things sound like a total mess in the showrooms.
WASHINGTON — As problems go in the nation's capital these days, the White House could live with this one.
The government "cash for clunkers" program and surrounding events has turned into a national news drama and advertising frenzy. Is the drama real or something else altogether?
Glenn Beck let's us know that there is nothing sacred when he is attempting to make a point. Watch the clip
The Finance Committee contains a high volume of lawmakers with close ties to the health and insurance industries through both campaign contributions and personal relationships.