Money Anecdote

Banking giant Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a federal investigation into laundering of drug money through Mexican exchange houses.

CBS News is getting a lot of diggs, tweets and shares for its story on the latest national debt numbers from the Treasury Department.

The Wachovia Bank unit of Wells Fargo & Co has agreed to pay $160 million as part of a deal to settle U.S. allegations of laundering Mexican drug money, according to a U.S

In rare public remarks last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the money involved in electing judges remains one of the most pressing concerns facing the American court system. And she joined her former colleague, Sandra Day O’Connor, in calling for reform.

Rock-wall climbing business got federal grant for solar power BOULDER – A climbing gym is in Boulder is getting national attention, not for the two story climbing walls inside, but for what you see when you climb on top of the building.

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story this morning on a nascent trend among municipalities to put their money in small local banks—and to get tough with the big ones.

The Department of Homeland Security apparently doesn’t know — or apparently care — how money is being spent or mispent…

Artist James Money turns to a familiar face for his second attempt at nation’s most famous portrait prize.

March 17 — Martin Midstream Partners LP , an operator of oil and natural gas pipelines and terminals along the Gulf of Mexico coast, is marketing bonds as companies increase the sizes of their debt sales to meet investor demand.

Popular payment provider PayPal has released an updated version of its iPhone app that introduces a number of new features. Most interesting is the integration of the “bump to communicate” feature first introduced by the Bump app. The PayPal app allows you to send money to another person by simply entering an amount and gently …