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  Dale Folwell Republicans are trying their best to make recent bank failures just another sub-category in their culture wars, claiming that...

Finally got to see the Academy Award-winning documentary "Inside Job." True to advance billing, it made my blood boil. Clear, conc...

"Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to tomorrow, ...

Former professional Bush-smoocher and giant Puritan Virginia Foxx has decided that El Presidente is an idiot and his Treasury Secretary Hank...

Even as Wachovia, the fourth-largest bank in the country, was announcing some $9 billion in losses and was cutting over 11,000 jobs and turn...

That's the term House Minority Leader John Boehner used to describe the financial rescue package, but he could have been speaking of an...

As John McCain was using the financial crisis as a means to save his mortgaged candidacy, and decided to air-drop himself into the negotiati...

Maybe there's potential job growth in one sector of our economy at least ... forensic accountants. We learn this a.m. that the F.B.I. is...

"There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, 'Wolf!' Why didn't you come?" An old man tried to...

That's the projected cost to taxpayers, adding up what we've already spent on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, and the new $700 billion...

The Big Lesson of the Bush years: the bigger you are, the faster you circle the drain. John "I know a lot less about economics" M...

We're beginning to figger out the Republican philosophy for handling the U.S. economy: privatize profits while socializing losses. As in...

" Wachovia reports huge loss, will cut 10,750 jobs " "Wachovia Corp. announced a whopping second quarter loss of $8.9 billion...

"...Bush is akin to the Captain of the Titanic, except that before putting wealthy Republicans on the lifeboats, he takes all the valua...

Wachovia, on the sick and injured list .

Apparently, if you've got enough political mojo, you can find an economist to predict whatever you want predicted, which perhaps account...

If this news doesn't make your throat go a little dry, you've maybe drunk more of the George-Bush-Virginia-Foxx economic Kool-Aid t...