Rescuing Wall Street

by Shawn Scanlon
The Bailout legislation that recently passed was the only way to help the ailing economy.
At least that’s how it was sold to us. But the salespeople were wrong.  There were a myriad of ways that government could have helped during these difficult times.  But let’s look at at from a different perspective.  What [...]

Confusion About Mark to Market Rules

By Matthew Wolf
Newt Gingrich has come out with a plan to solve our financial problems:

The only problem with this is that his remedy is tantamount to curing a problem caused by deregulation and lack of enforcement of accounting and other rules by increasing deregulation and suspending accounting [...]

Two of a Kind

By Lance Thibert
While I am among the first to point out the fallacies in the oft-spouted “both parties are the same” mantra, recent events have humorously, if superficially, made the two presidential campaigns seem like mirror images of each other. The Democratic ticket has a charismatic figure at the head, and an experienced senator in [...]