In another breathtaking display of government intervention, top officials at the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve began discussing with congressional leaders a plan to buy up vast numbers of distressed mortgages held by ailing financial institutions. ...more

September 19, 2008

You know this country is in the midst of a housing crisis. It's been the headliner on the six o'clock news and the front-page story in all the papers, for months. ...more

September 7, 2008

Thrust into the role of financial firefighter, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has taken unprecedented steps over the past year to battle the nation's worst credit and financial crises in decades. ...more

August 21, 2008

The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or they cannot afford their own share of medical costs. ...more

May 4, 2008

Florida's state revenue will fall nearly $2.5 billion short this fiscal year and next, taking its steepest nose dive since the early 1990s and behaving as if the state were in a recession, state analysts said Wednesday. ...more

November 15, 2007