The growing deficit and broken tax policies are killing job creation and causing long term damage to the middle class of the US, Steve Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, told CNBC Friday.

The US is lagging in the fight against climate change and may lose its place as a world power because of it, former US President Bill Clinton told CNBC Tuesday.

Corporations who are seizing the opportunity to cut carbon emissions now, without government regulation, will profit more when regulation is enacted, according to a report released Monday by the Carbon Disclosure Project, an organization that measures companies’ carbon footprint.

“Securitization was like financial heroin,” said Gary Kaminsky, a former director of Neuberger Berman. “It was so easy to make a lot of money ... there was no incentive to make people aware that the musical chairs were going to stop at some point.”

Even if Lehman Brothers were saved last September, another financial institution would have failed and set off the same global economic crisis that has plagued international markets for the last year, the European Central Bank President told CNBC.

As the sky fell on Wall Street a year ago, CEOS at the top firms were faced with trying to contain the damage.  John Mack, Vikram Pandit and Bob Diamond look back with CNBC.

With bullion prices soaring in recent years, gold and silver coins have become a hot-ticket item among investors looking for diversification, but the rare coin market itself is on something of a roll.

A calendar of big events for would-be collectors and investors hunting for fun and fortune.