With the first half of the $750B already dolled out to banks and financial institutions the results are less than promising.  First there was the frenzy to try to buy each other out.  Not more stable buying up unstable institutions, which might have made some sense in streamlining the industry and providing some stability, but [...]

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This will be remembered as the year of the big story.  The Democratic primary fight pitting the first female candidate with a chance of being nominated by a major party against the first Black candidate; leading, as expected, to one of them winning the White House.  The presidential election culminated in the first Black man [...]

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Alright, this is classic government.  We are in a financial crisis right?  So I am assuming that means we should be careful about wasting money.  To deal with it our fearless leaders got together and held a meeting of the G20.  Good idea so far.  But look at the images from the meeting.  In the [...]

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As if their service charges were not enough, banks now want the money we collect for schools and hospitals and roads and all that other stuff we pay our taxes for.  This morning on CNN Senator Chris Dodd, when questioned about the 700 billion dollar bail out package passed by the U. S. Congress in [...]

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