By: USA TODAY
Nancy Pelosi
On Monday, America's foremost economists told House Democratic leaders that our economy and America's families would benefit if Congress acted quickly on a new economic recovery package. The economists' message echoed that of...
By: Los Angeles Times
Washington's financial-rescue-of-the-day frenzy continued this week with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. announcing that the government would invest at least $250 billion directly in U.S. banks. We don't fault the...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Election '08: On the eve of a final debate, Barack Obama unveiled an emergency "rescue" of the middle class from capitalism. The details show it to be all hype and no help.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's...
By: Investor's Business Daily
The Crash: "Why has the market dropped so much?" everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don't understand?
By: Christian Science Monitor
David G. Oedel
At the time, it was perhaps the biggest bailout in US history. Today, one month later, the federal takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been all but forgotten in the drama of the global credit crunch....
By: USA TODAY
Ross K. Baker
If the passage of the federal $700 billion rescue succeeds in pulling us back from the financial abyss, we have some people we need to thank. Not the president, who belatedly worked the phones and emerged only intermittently...
By: US Fed News
US Fed News
The chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank issued the text of the following speech:
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
At the National Association for Business Economics 50th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Current Economic and Financial...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Financial Rescue: Democrats created the mortgage crisis by forcing banks to give loans to people who couldn't afford them. Now Obama and Biden want bankruptcy judges to bail out the same deadbeat homeowners. And once again,...
By: The International Herald Tribune
Alex Berenson - The New York Times Media Group
Is this the end of American hypercapitalism?
For nearly a generation, the United States has driven its growth by deregulating markets, reducing tax rates and promoting trade. Across wide swaths of the economy - from airlines to...
By: USA TODAY
Matt Krantz
A hotly contested accounting rule at the center of the financial crisis has reared up again in the bailout bill, but not in a way that will answer questions for months.
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