Senator Obama advises that the economy will get worse; so does my barber. I am not therefore surprised by daily reports of business failures, or by overpaid CEOs lined up with hands held out for government charity. But I was saddened and disturbed to read, this morning, that the venerable Tribune Co. is "at the edge of bankruptcy." ...more

December 11, 2008

Rick Matthews doesn't want folks calling it a bailout. ...more

December 5, 2008

In 1916, Rev. J.H. Boetcker wrote "The Ten Cannots." These "Cannots" still ring true. ...more

November 20, 2008

It's a $150 billion gamble. That's the size of the newly enlarged financial lifeline the U.S. government threw tottering insurance giant American International Group on Monday, expanding an aid package that's gradually grown since it began as an $85 billion loan in September. ...more

November 11, 2008

Frank Cianci of Hudson says anyone who voted for the financial bailout should be voted out of the U.S. House and Senate. ...more

November 1, 2008

I have never seen the dirty, desperate smear campaign that McCain-Palin are running. McCain says he would freeze spending for a year; let me translate that for you. It applies to Social Security for one thing. He has been itching to get his hands on our Social Security for years. He plans to cut our benefits, cut the cost of living, raise the retirement age, privatize accounts again and invest it in Wall Street, in spite of what's happening now. This is a page out of his pal Bush's playbook. While he's doing that he will be giving a tax break to his CEO buddies. This is a very wealthy man who relates to other wealthy people. ...more

October 16, 2008

Hey government, I've maxed out my credit cards, I'm about to lose my house, my car - everything - due to some very bad decisions on my part (mainly trying to get rich quick at Seminole Hard Rock). Please give me $1 million before I lose it all. ...more

October 11, 2008

Mom was having a bad day. When she called just after noon she said she had been in an accident and was standing next to her car on Dale Mabry Highway, and would I come over? ...more

October 10, 2008

WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday. ...more

October 7, 2008

The magnitude of the bailout demanded, rather than proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is astonishing. Take AIG, American International Group, an insurance company worth over a trillion dollars. Paulson says it will cost $85 billion to save AIG. ...more

September 30, 2008