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Even though the stock market has lost 40 percent of its value since one year ago, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the stock market at the end of yesterday was still up 397 percent from its close on Oct. 10, 1988, at 2,158, twenty years ago today.

Criticizing Congress makes you a racist, according to Barney Frank. Ed Morrissey explains:

Let’s keep score. Criticizing Obama means we’re racists. Criticizing Congress means we’re racists.

Bridgett warnes us to our eyes on the hedge funds today:

From Fast Company:

“The idea that the market is always right is a crazy idea. Laissez-faire is over.”

Well, until the [bleep] hits the fan, maybe. But it can’t be stopped forever.

The economic meltdown of the national banking system is well underway and at every turn, we are being reassured that everything will be OK.

The economic meltdown of the national banking system is well underway and at every turn, we are being reassured that everything will be OK.

The ideological conservatism of Marsha Blackburn’s House Republicans and the pragmatism of Bob Corker clashed over the weekend in the debate over how best to deal with America’s financial crisis:

But based on the imperfect public info available, Roll Call clocks in Sen. Bob Corker as the fifteenth most wealthy member of Congress:

A word of advice for you homeowners out there.  If it's been awhile since you've visited Zillow, the real estate valuation site, then I suggest you don't.  The housing crisis we have all heard about is reflecte

A word of advice for you homeowners out there.  If it's been awhile since you've visited Zillow, the real estate valuation site, then I suggest you don't.  The housing crisis we have all heard about is reflecte