Remember deflation? Prices appeared to be circling the drain last summer, raising fears of a Japanese-style "lost decade" of spiraling personal debt, falling wages and economic stagnation. Well, you ...

Today marks the last day of the Fed's financial asset purchase program known as QE2. What impact did QE2 have? What should we expect to happen now that it is ending? Traditionally, the Federal Reserve ...

Economists have not given QE2 a standing ovation. In fact, they have been strikingly unenthusiastic about the Federal Reserve’s plan to buy long-term Treasury bonds to head off possible deflation and ...

Could the financial markets be heading for a June swoon? The answer likely hinges on what happens after the Federal Reserve's $600 billion effort to boost the economy expires. Some investors warn that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity.

U.S. investors have been so preoccupied with recent action by the U.S. central bank that we have neglected to recognize the impact such actions could have on the global economy, and perhaps more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Now for a trivia quiz. In 2004, the dowager liner of the ocean, Queen Elizabeth 2, was dethroned by her ingenue sister, Queen Mary 2, which took over ...

The QE2, which was launched 50 years ago, was a British "style icon" that became one of the most famous liners in the world - but it also marked the end of generations of large passenger ships being ...

The Federal Reserve’s $600 billion bond buying program ends at the end of this month. The program, which was the second round of quantitative easing for the central bank and has become known as QE2, ...

The QE2, which sailed on its last voyage from its former home port of Southampton in England, was greeted by a large flotilla of private craft including the giant yacht My Dubai, owned by the ...

The bridge on one of the most prestigious ocean liners ever to sail the high seas has been opened to the public for the first time in its 52-year history. Visitors are now able to explore the command ...