Super job Congratulations to Dick Beard and the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee. Super Bowl XLIII and all of the festivities surrounding the big game was an enormous success. Everything was top notch. From the hotels to the restaurants to all of the volunteers, everyone went above and beyond to pull off a fantastic celebration. We here at the South Florida Super Bowl Host Committee tip our hat to you. ...more

February 4, 2009

Barack Obama on Tuesday abruptly abandoned his nomination fight for Tom Daschle and a second major appointee who failed to pay all their taxes, fearing a lingering ethics dispute would undercut his claims to moral high ground and cripple his presidency in just its second week. "I screwed up," Obama declared. ...more

February 3, 2009

Just Don't Pay President Obama backed Democrat Tim Geithner as Treasury secretary despite the fact that he "accidentally" had not paid $32,000 to the IRS. Now the President has nominated Tom Daschle to be Health and Human Services secretary even though Daschle failed to pay $128,000 in taxes. ...more

February 3, 2009

Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fees in the past two years speaking to leaders of the industry President Barack Obama wants him to reform as the administration's health secretary. ...more

February 2, 2009

In his radio address Saturday, President Barack Obama promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives, as he prepares a new road map for spending billions from the financial rescue plan. ...more

February 1, 2009

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, who has ordered a pay freeze on six-figure White House aides, wants to talk to Wall Street executives about a report indicating payments of over $18 billion in bonuses as the economy was in virtual free fall. ...more

January 30, 2009

Late-night TV comics won't run out of fresh material for the next few weeks. ...more

January 29, 2009

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in his first full day on the job, is announcing new rules to limit special-interest influence on the government's $700 billion financial rescue program. ...more

January 27, 2009

The Senate on Monday confirmed New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner as President Barack Obama's treasury secretary despite tax problems that might have sunk his nomination in less desperate times. ...more

January 26, 2009

"Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World," by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press, $33) ...more

January 25, 2009