As it stands, the rest of us will be paying much money over a long time for the greed and bad judgment of those who melted down the economy. ...more

September 20, 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

Paulson. Merrill Lynch. Lehman. Bernanke. Names are what investors start talking about at moments like this. Names, the faith is, will rescue Wall Street and, by extension, the U.S. economy. When a market crash is big enough, people are too panicked to think about the technicalities of reform. They think about the names they are losing and names who, they hope, will save the day. ...more

September 17, 2008

More than 200 years after it was born at the base of a buttonwood tree, Wall Street as we have known it is ceasing to exist. ...more

September 17, 2008

A successful newspaper will reflect the hopes, fears, beliefs, desires and preferences of its readers. ...more

September 17, 2008

The investment bank Goldman Sachs, the firm that has looked the best throughout the credit crisis, reported a profit Tuesday of $845 million, or $1.81 a share, in the third quarter, down 70 percent from a year ago. ...more

September 17, 2008

Here is the most current local employment estimates for Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: ...more

September 16, 2008