Thing One: Prosecutin' Is Hard: Willie Sutton apocryphally said that he robbed banks because that's where the money was. But if you really want to cri...

Thing One: Give The Robots What They Want: See, this is why nobody trusts the stock market any more. The Securities and Exchange Commission is inve...

Thing One: Romney Relaunch Explodes Over Sea Of Japan: Whoever was in charge of Mitt Romney's campaign relaunch might have a future with the North Kor...

Thing One: Companies Feel Your Pain: Are corporations not people, too, my friend? If you prick them, do they not bleed money? The answer to the fir...

Mark Gongloff is off the newsletter this morning, so today's 7.5 Things are brought to you by Jillian Berman. Thing One: Fed's Announcement Is A BF...

Thing One: The Money Train's A-Comin: Yesterday bank robbers fleeing through Los Angeles threw wads of money out of the windows of their getaway car, ...

Thing One: Germany Saves World: And what happened, then? Well, in Europe they say that Germany's small heart grew three sizes that day. Germany, af...

Thing One: No More Teacher's Dirty Looks: Everybody in America hates unions and teachers all of the time, and even more so today, thanks to Chicago. ...

Thing One: Magical Thinking: Join us now, won't you, for a journey through the wonderful world of magic and illusion, with your host, The Amazing Romn...

Mark Gongloff is off the newsletter this morning, so today's 7.5 Things are brought to you by Jillian Berman. Thing One: Obummer: Obama accepted th...

Thing One: Draghi's Big Day: Most of the time, watching Europe try to deal with its endless debt crisis feels like nothing more than a kinda-sad, kind...

Thing One: We're From The Government: All last week, Republicans painted Democrats as the party of Big Government. Last night, the Dems opened their c...

At least 834 exoplanets have been discovered so far, but there are only seven and a half business-type things you need to know each day. Here they are...

Mark Gongloff is off the newsletter this morning, so today's 7.5 Things are brought to you by Jillian Berman. Thing One: All Eyes On Jackson Hole: ...

Thing One: Truth-Telling: A night after Chris Christie promised America that his party would tell hard truths about the economy, his party's vice-pres...

Programming Note: This is the last newsletter produced with the assistance of Khadeeja Safdar, who for some reason has decided to further her educatio...

Thing One: Meet The Real Mitt: Hello, America, are you super-excited about the chance this week to meet the "real" Mitt Romney, in Florida? Well, stra...

Thing One: Nature Versus Us: Somebody must have given Mother Nature some Chiffon margarine, because She is pissed. Tropical Storm Isaac is churning...

Mark Gongloff is off the newsletter this morning. So today's 7.5 Things are brought to you by Jillian Berman. Thing One: Regulators Scrambling Fo...

Thing One: The Fed's A Big Tease: Stripping: It seems everyone is doing it these days. Matthew McConaughey. The Octomom. Journalists, God forbid. But ...

Thing One: The Many Faces Of Private Equity: Private equity is apparently a far more complicated subject than we had been led to believe. For example,...

Thing One: Citigroup Is Juuuust Right: Like Billy Joel, Vikram Pandit loves Citigroup just the way it is. The Citi CEO told the Financial Times tha...

Programming Note: Thanks very much to the incomparable Jillian Berman for handling the newsletter last week. Come to think of it, she wrote better and...

Thing One: Let's Settle This In Private: British officials are hoping they can convince Washington regulators to settle this whole U.K.-bank-launderin...

Thing One: Banks Prevent Housing Bubble: You have likely heard -- probably in a nightmarish Facebook ad with a one-eyed bearded man dancing a jig -- t...