My usual routine on Saturday morning is to brew up a hot pot of coffee and sit down with the New York Times, and last Saturday was no exception. I expected to find many articles dealing with the latest financial crisis, government bailout, and last Thurs...

Last Week "We'll surely fail If you don't bail," Said Wall Street to the gov. "The Dow'll crash, Without your cash. Send a trill our way." The gov, it caved, And quickly gave, The bankers all they craved. This Week "We...

A conversation I had on IM today: Lincoln: so hey i see that bailout is working wonders Casey: what did I tell you? It would make things worse Casey: We’ve just socialized much of Wall Street, and a good portion of our financial system…a furth...

(Washington D.C.) Saturday morning Tony Wilson, a homeless former school teacher, was the happiest he’d been in months. Congress had finally taken action to help the drowning economy by passing the 850 billion 700 billion bailout and he had found a half...

...sperity? I’d like to start by posing this 2-footed question, as a way to draw on your best solutions. How can we bailout our community’s intellectual loss from daily overdoses of economic woes? Any innovative yet solid ideas that...

If you spend too much time reading the news, it would be easy to get depressed. I don’t have cable, but I do read the top online news stories. It seems like every single one of them is about how bad the economy is, why we must have a bailout, and ...

Image via WikipediaI've never been more beside myself. In about 5 days, Congress was able to "come together in a bi-partisan way to rescue our economy." Yeah right. The bailout will do little if anything to quash a global "paying...

Image via WikipediaI've never been more beside myself. In about 5 days, Congress was able to "come together in a bi-partisan way to rescue our economy." Yeah right. The bailout will do little if anything to quash a global "paying...

Colonel Hogan... you will pass the bailout bill!

Yes, I'm a skeptic, the ultimate skeptic according to my wife, but it is not shocking how much news came out in the last week or so of businesses suddenly having very public problems securing loans, and polls saying that...

Congress's new and improved bailout bill includes, along with the obligatory helpings of pork, a provision that would increase FDIC bank deposit insurance from $100,000 to $250,000. Should the House pass the bill today, that boost in insurance would l...

... as heterosexual couples? Drill for oil.What is your solution to America's decaying infrastructure? Drill for oil.Is the bailout a good idea? Drill for oil.How should we increase the performance of our schools? Drill for oil.How would you address ...

Yesterday, the Senate passed their version of the Bailout Bill. One item contained in the bill which caught my eye was a change to Code section 132(f) which will cause an almost immediate revision to our Qualified Transportation plan. As a bicycle commu...

The SEC aren't waiting for Congress to approve the "bailout" in order to start addressing the issues created by FAS 157. There's an article in today's WSJ – Regulators Ease Securities-Valuation Rules that give some background. You ...

Photo by alfons069 I don’t believe that we have seen the worst of this financial crisis yet. No matter whether the bailout bill finally passes or not, this country is in for some tough times. There will definitely be job losses and the housing mar...

Headlines this morning: Stocks jump after sell-off but credit market tightens House urged to revisit bailout vote What Now? Life After the Failed Bailout Bill Five Must-Knows About Your 401(k) Fund So way back when I was just a wee investor, just ge...

With last week’s discussions of the Federal government providing a $700 billion bailout and Congress approving it just this weekend, many consumers are wondering “What about us?” It is a sign of difficult economic times, even if nobody i...

Why not bail out failed home owners, the root cause of the whole sub prime mess and financial blackout? Bailing out businesses will not help home owners, as the original problem is still left out, and only fixing side effects.