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Stimulus Package Could Lose $50 Billion To Fraud

From the stimulus plan creators that brought you a multi million dollar subsidy for toy arrows, the Obama administration is now worried about losing up to $50 billion of the $787 billion stimulus to fraud. The problem is bad enough...

This Is About The Constitution!

We don't have any particularly strong feelings either way about newly-appointed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Still, we can't help but feeling a twinge of regret that others, perhaps one in particular, weren't more strongly considered for the post. What this...

We're Having A Special On Recession Release Denial Right Now

There are clearly two constants in the new epoch of American poli-finance. Daily Obama press conferences and monthly admonitions from financial dominatrix Meredith Whitney. The latest target: the U.S. credit card industry, which, with a crack of the whip and...

Liveblogging The Obama Event

2:27 pm: What do you mean "which one?" The President Elect is going to introduce us all to his team. And some other stuff. Allegedly. 2:30 pm: "...than any 'such candidate' in the past." (What the hell is that supposed...

DealBreaker Afterdark: Bernanke Endorses Obama

A bit obnoxious as a headline for the Wall Street Journal (and of us for telegraphing it), no? Really, the entire piece makes this entry more about the continuing slide in Wall Street Journal quality than any political statement or...

Mortgage Checks Won't Be The Only Thing Bouncing This Month

Over the next few months, the media will be talking about presidential polls taken nationwide. Most of the polls you hear about are done nationwide and assume we Americans for our president the way the French vote for theirs (and...