It isn't often that public outrage peaks so close to an election, but this is a rare moment in history when "we the people" can exact a price from the political leadership that has duped, scammed and lied to them, contributing mightily to the current financial mess. ...more

September 26, 2008

Save people, not bankers. ...more

September 24, 2008

Market forces are great. Until they're not. After nearly three decades of conservatives insisting that government has no business meddling in the private sector, the Bush administration on Friday announced a sweeping plan to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars bailing out financial institutions that bet wrong on the mortgage market. ...more

September 23, 2008

Congratulations, Raymond James, you're now the nation's largest investment bank. How? Because every other investment bank bigger than Raymond James Financial Inc. bit the dust last week or agreed to shotgun weddings with larger "commercial" banks that are perceived as more stable - stable by Wall Street standards. ...more

September 23, 2008

The reorganization of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs marks a historic end to a period when investment banks drove Wall Street and leaves open what - if anything - will assume the role of taking big risks that have powered the market's booms and busts. ...more

September 23, 2008

I am outraged by the recent "solutions" proposed by our "leaders" in Washington to the financial crisis. Unelected bureaucrats and several shameful congressmen have staged a dangerous coup. They have hijacked our wonderful democratic and free market institutions and debased them into socialist nightmares that would make Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin blush. If that doesn't alarm you, then try this: Over the past three months, two unelected bureaucrats have decided to spend $1 trillion (at least) of your money to prop up their former colleagues or future consulting gigs. ...more

September 23, 2008

This is the peak of the hurricane season in the financial markets. ...more

September 19, 2008

Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was paraphrased, not quoted directly, in Thursday's story, "Is Our Money Safe." ...more

September 19, 2008

When Bill Crews, the chairman of Wauchula State Bank, and Tom Trevino, a broker with Merrill Lynch's brokerage in Sebring, spoke to the Kiwanis in Hardee County on Tuesday, they faced a deluge of questions. ...more

September 18, 2008

There is just one problem with the genius of capitalism. From time to time, it veers off into barking madness. ...more

September 18, 2008