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The Washington Post headline is Stocks Surge as Fed Offers A Boost and it’s written by T. M. Tse and Neil Irwin, who are staff writers and may be forgiven their sins. Certainly they are not Steven Pearstein (probably one of the finest business-writers extant today) even though he too is beginning ...

In about a year it will be the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Weimar Republic, the nickname for post-WWI Germany and a moniker forever connected with the hyper-inflationary economy of Germany. That circumstance lead directly to the democratic election of Adolph Hitler and WWII. In 1914...

Just when you think every possible outrage has been committed in the name of George Bush's policy of pre-emptive war, something more comes from the blind-side to knock the wind from an already winded American experience. Pamela Constable writes for the Washington Post Foreign Service. They still hav...

From Sunday's Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich writes a column that might better have been a WaPo series over the last 30 years or so that they championed and cheer-led the economic miracle. The Boom Was a Bust For Ordinary People By Barbara EhrenreichSunday, February 3, 2008 I t begins to sound ...

Negotiators Grappling With Stimulus Plan White House, Hill Strive to Maintain Bipartisanship By Jonathan Weisman and Peter BakerWashington Post Staff WritersThursday, January 24, 2008; A03 The White House and congressional leaders struggled yesterday to preserve their newfound alliance on the econom...

Just a week ago, Intel (the chip-maker) posted quarterly earnings that shattered all company records for profitability and growth. Intel’s reward was to lose 12.5% of its stock value. Recently I wrote a piece about three other quarterly reports; two of them in the dumper and one doing OK. Guess wh...

Not a Mortgage Meltdown, Not a Sub-Prime Crisis ‘Tis the season to be jolly, but no one said it was a time to bail out criminals who properly belong in jail. I am sick to death of watching the hand-wringing on the part of our Treasury Secretary and Chairman of the Federal Reserve, when they ought ...