Congress just passed a sweeping overhaul of America's financial regulatory system. The financial bill cleared the Senate by a vote of 60 to 39, and ...

Where exactly is all of the bailout money going? Today, McClatchy addresses growing concerns over the lack of true oversight in government's enormous ...

There once were usury laws in this country to limit such shamelessness. I wonder where they went?

To survive this economic catastrophe, Americans must stand up to the likes of the Chamber and the Roundtable and call them out for being economic traitors to the United States of America.

Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?

Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.

The current lesson for the commercial banks is that if they want to survive, they should not do any of the things -- such as increase lending -- that the Treasury is trying to get them to do.

You know what the bailout feels like? Walking down the street, and pressing a crumpled bill into the outstretched palm of the guy who approached you... Only multiplied by 700 billion.

We need to bury the philosophy that worships only business, free markets, deregulation and free trade, and replace it with an economic program that rebuilds the middle class.

The problem seems straightforward. After the AIG collapse, how does one institution trust its exposure to another?

A wise Democrat I know argues that a 21st Century WPA-type program is not only good policy; it's also good politics: "Bailing out financial markets is playing defense. I want to play offense."

The number of people late on their monthly car and truck payments is huge, represented by nearly $25 billion worth of consumer auto loans that are delinquent.

Despite the bailout, the European and Asian markets are in what the Financial Times describes as a "global sell-off" but which less conservative media are describing as a "bailout panic."

Bullish investors should turn into shrinking violets as the stock market continues its shocking downward spiral, CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer to...

***UPDATE*** 12:41AM 10/2 Bipartisanship: The Senate's bailout vote margin stood in stark contrast to the House's: In stark contrast to the House re...