MIAMI — Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud Wednesday in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million – the highest dollar amount in a single Medicare bust in U.S. history. Read More

As many as 1.25 million foreclosed homes are expected to enter the market in  2012 as the foreclosure probes end. Read More

Best selling author and Wall Street legend Michael  Lewiswas on CNBCs Squawk Box this morning for a segment the show has been  doing this week on books you need to read.

If anyone should be able to answer that question, it’s Lewis. He wrote Wall  Street’s modern classics — Liar’s Poker, The Big Short, and Boomerang. Read More

You have to love this: The title of Albert Edwards’ latest note is: The  biggest bubble in recent history is heading for the mother of all hard  landings.

So what’s that bubble? Read More

Roubini began with an uncharacteristic optimism, quickly rattling off a series of “upside risks” to the global economy: a global economic recovery, an asset price recovery, booming emerging markets, technological progress and ongoing globalization. Read More

Bill Clinton has some advice for Europe‘s leaders: Focus on stimulus, not cost cutting.

The former president told a capacity crowd inside the Beverly Hilton’s grand ballroom that the continent cannot rely on austerity measures to bail itself out of the debt crisis. Read More

Demonstrators took to the streets in May Day protests across the U.S., sending a singing “Guitarmy”to Manhattan’s Union Square, smashing windows in Seattle and seizing a vacant building in San Francisco. Read More

Workers take to the streets on International Workers’ Day in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe Read More

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — As recession spreads across Europe, Germany may not be able to avoid being dragged down.

In the past week, Spain and the United Kingdomrevealed that they had slipped back into recession, with two straight quarters of economic contraction. Read More