NYT reports: Senate leaders scheduled a Wednesday vote on a $700 billion financial bailout package after agreeing to add tax breaks and a higher limit for insured bank deposits in a bid to attract enough votes to reverse a shocking defeat … [Read more...]

The vote.  We need to announce primary challenges to those who supported the plan NOW, to commence in earnest late next year, after serious exploratory committees and real financing are lined up.  $2300 for every man woman and … [Read more...]

I wrote my congressman and let him know I opposed the bailout. For those of us old enough to remember the Savings and Loan crisis and the fallout, this latest financial meltdown was all too predictable. Just as predictable that Tom Menino … [Read more...]

This was never about party (Democrats voted yes 140-95; GOP voted no 65-133 -- about as bipartisan a House vote as we've seen in some time).  Nor is it about a few lawmakers' feelings being hurt by Nancy Pelosi -- honestly, if there's … [Read more...]

First, even if we can work away at the mortgage crisis, we still have a huge problem with credit card debt.  IMHO, we need a national usury law-the current state-by-state approach leads to a classic "race to the bottom" with lenders … [Read more...]