The news coming from the financial sector these days is nothing but bad. Writedowns. Layoffs. Lawsuits. Rolling heads. The dark side of leverage has created economic turmoil. But here's a ray of light. On Wednesday March 5th, CEO Lloyd Blankfein announced a new initiative called 10,000 Women. The goal...

If the Bush administration could choose one day from 2008 so far to live over, which day would that be? We pick last Friday, a day that will go down in history as The Market Day Before the Fed Came to the Rescue.

Let's replay. In real life, our...

Today's announcement by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is but the latest effort by the current administration to downplay the severity of the current economic crisis. In the grand old American tradition of hucksterism, Paulson's prescription is a sorely misleading sell.

It's time to wake up and smell the economy....