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• Obama Transition Teams Scrutinizing Federal Agencies

  Wearing yellow badges and traveling in groups of 10 or more, agency review teams for President-elect Barack Obama have swarmed into dozens of government offices, from the Pentagon to the National Council on Disability. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: The White House, George W. Bush, The Pentagon, Medicare, Tony Fratto, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, Obama, Bill Clinton, Harvard University, U.S. Democratic Party, Al Gore, Ronald Reagan, Federal, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, Center for American Progress, Agencies, Teams, Transition, John D. Podesta, Sarah Sewall, Robert Sussman, Wendy R. Sherman, Michele A. Flournoy, Lisa Brown, Alex Bastani, Lisa Jackson, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Melody C. Barnes, Robert Rangel, National Council on Disability, Scrutinizing, Caspar Weinberger, John White, Rose McMurray, Alyssa Rosenberg, Domestic Policy Council, Tom Donilon, University of Vermont, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, John P. Burke, Reinventing Government

• Markets Don't Make Bubbles, People Do

  THE ASCENT OF MONEY A Financial History Of the World By Niall Ferguson Posted Nov 29 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, United States, Henry M. Paulson, Markets, Milton Friedman, CNBC Inc., MSNBC Interactive News LLC, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Los Angeles Times, Harvard University, Do, British Broadcasting Corporation, China, London, Japan, Make, George Soros, Don't, Penguin Group, People, G20 Industrial Nations, Peter L. Bernstein, Niall Ferguson, Hernando de Soto, Nathan Rothschild, Jacob Bronowski, Babylon, Joseph Schumpeter, John Train, Heinrich Heine, Wellington, John Law, Bubbles,, Adam Smith

• Cheating Scandals Raise New Questions about Honesty, Security of Internet Gambling

  Whenever Todd Witteles signed on to an Internet poker site, the first thing he did was look around for inexperienced players. One day in August 2007, the Las Vegas poker pro thought he had found an easy mark on AbsolutePoker.com. Posted Nov 29 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: New York, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, New Jersey, Texas, New, Manhattan, of, The Washington Post Company, Las Vegas, Connecticut, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Gambling, 60 Minutes, CBS Corporation, Harvard University, Tennessee, About, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Canada, New York University, Costa Rica, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Security, Questions, Queens County, Internet, Panama, Raise, ESPN Inc., University of Montana, Microsoft Excel, Joe Norton, University of Michigan Law School, Montreal, Isle of Man, Antigua and Barbuda, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Malta, David G. Schwartz, Center for Gaming Research, Irish Sea, David Paredes, Scott Tom, Chris Moneymaker, Jersey Gaming Commission, Kahnawake Gaming Commission, Michael Delisle, Joseph Tokwiro Norton, Honesty,, Blast Off Ltd., Todd Witteles, Phil Tom, Nat Arem, Christiansen Capital Advisors LLC, Bobby Mamudi, Russ Hamilton, AbsolutePoker.com, Catania, World Series of Poker, Frank Catania, UltimateBet.com, Sumi Aggarwal, Emory University School of Law, Marco Johnson, Cheating, David Chesnoff, Gary Wise, Horsham, Steve Kroft, San Jose (Costa Rica), Ira Rosen, Council of Kahnawake, Scandals

• Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

  Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. Posted Nov 23 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, The White House, George W. Bush, Medicare, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Citigroup Inc., Charles Schumer, John McCain, Iraq, CBS Corporation, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Barack Obama, Chicago, Harvard University, David Axelrod, ABC Inc., Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Nancy Pelosi, May, Jon Corzine, Plan, Billion, Robert Reich, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Boehner, Austan Goolsbee, Lawrence Summers, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stimulus, Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic Research, Reach, Democrats', $700

• Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs

  President-elect Barack Obama is developing a plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs over the next two years by spending billions of dollars to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public schools, and construct wind farms and other alternative sources of energy. Posted Nov 22 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, for, George W. Bush, Neil Irwin, Barack Obama, Obama, Bill Clinton, Harvard University, Capitol Hill, Jobs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Sets, The Bank of New York Co. Inc., National Economic Council, Tennessee Valley Authority, Goal, Expansive

• Early Transition Decisions to Shape Obama Presidency

  Barack Obama will take office in 76 days, but the moves he begins making today will immediately begin to define his presidency. Posted Nov 04 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, to, Google Inc., The White House, George W. Bush, U.S. Marine Corps, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Iraq, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, Chicago, Bill Clinton, Harvard University, David Axelrod, Al Gore, Capitol Hill, Harvard Law School, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Richmond, David Plouffe, Robert Rubin, Paul Volcker, Kathleen Sebelius, The Brookings Institution, Robert Gates, Center for American Progress, New York City, Timothy Geithner, Rahm Emanuel, Lawrence Summers, United Nations, Early, Warren Buffett, Chuck Hagel, Shape, Jim Cooper, Nebraska, Robert Gibbs, Poland, Decisions, William Daley, Jennifer Granholm, Valerie Jarrett, Dan Pfeiffer, Thomas A. Daschle, Robert F. Bauer, Michael Froman, Pete Rouse, Transition, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Donald Gips, Joel Klein, John D. Podesta, James B. Steinberg, Cassandra Q. Butts, Stephen Hess, Susan Rice, Melody Barnes, Sarah Sewall, Jim Jones, Presidency

• On Capitol Hill, A Race to Renovate

  For 11 Capitol Hill families, it's crunch time. Jackie Sink just finished a mural on her 14-year-old son's bedroom wall. Marie Connolly is getting the floors buffed. Rebecca Mertz's new kitchen backsplash was installed just in time, and Nikki Territo got a new dining room rug for the event. Posted Oct 17 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, to, on, A, Harvard University, Race, Capitol Hill, Kentucky, Capitol, The Home Depot Inc., Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, Capitol Hill Restoration Society, Jackie Sink, Parent-Teacher Association of the Capitol Hill Cluster School, Renovate, Nikki Territo, Kermit Baker, Hill,, Rebecca Mertz, Laura Cantral, Marie Connolly

• Genome Database Will Link Genes, Traits in Public View

  BOSTON -- George Church wants to put his personal genetic blueprint online for all to see -- the sequence of chemical bases that make him who he is, a lanky scientist of Scottish ancestry who has dyslexia, narcolepsy and motion sickness. Posted Oct 17 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: United States, In, Will, Boston, Harvard University, Facebook Inc., Public, Rockville, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Stanford University, Magda Jean-Louis, Harvard Medical School, Link, View, Stephen Mercer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Jorge Conde, Cold Spring Harbor, Charles River, Joseph Thakuria, Genome, Mark Rothstein, Deborah C. Peel, Institute for Bioethics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Database, Harvard University Institutional Review Board, Traits, Xiaodi Wu, Genes,, Ting Wu, James Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

• Life's Basics More of a Stretch

  If money were not so tight, Regino Romero would use the basement of his Lorton town home some other way. But with his former wife gone, his paycheck flat and his bills rising, he sees no option but to rent the place out. Posted Oct 16 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, United States, More, Alexandria, A, of, The Washington Post Company, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard University, Capitol Hill, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Prince William County, El Salvador, Madonna Lebling, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Jon Cohen, Dodge Caravan, Regino Romero, Hayfield High School, Maryam Ulomi, Stretch, Lorton Community Action Center, Life's, Basics, Hilton Crystal City, Margaret C. Simms

• World Leaders Vow Concerted Action

  U.S. stock markets gyrated wildly yesterday as the world's top finance ministers met in Washington to hammer out a joint set of principles aimed at containing the financial crisis and restoring badly damaged confidence. Posted Oct 10 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, United States, Action, Henry M. Paulson, United Kingdom, New Jersey, George W. Bush, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., World, The World Bank Group, Neil Irwin, Illinois, Michigan, Harvard University, International Monetary Fund, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Germany, Japan, Morgan Stanley, Nancy Pelosi, Dan Eggen, Toyota Motor Corporation, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Leaders, American Express Company, General Electric Company, Lori Montgomery, France, Lawrence Summers, Capital One Financial Corporation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Peter Whoriskey, Frank Ahrens, Binyamin Appelbaum, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Steven Rattner, Christine Lagarde, Quadrangle Group LLC, Vow, Concerted, Main Street Bank, Meridian Bank

• Where Fantasy Meets Reality

  There is a reason that every fairy tale involves a castle. The dream home plays a central role in our fantasies of finding true love and living happily ever after. Maybe that's one reason reality has become so disappointing. Posted Oct 10 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, Baltimore, Prince George's County, Adams Morgan, California, Boston, Harvard University, Capitol Hill, Reality, The Walt Disney Company, Meets, Where, Hyattsville, Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, Ruth Peters, Riverdale, Alicia Caine, Daniel Gilbert, Christopher Mayer, David Genesove, David Eigen, Rom Brafman, Kathryn Higgins, Dan Schick, Fantasy

• A Test of Blackstreet's Strategy

  Executives of Blackstreet Capital Management, a Bethesda private-equity firm, are constantly tossing around pithy investment philosophies. One saying is, "If we can't fix it in 12 to 24 months, we probably can't fix it." Posted Oct 05 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, United States, Bethesda, Maryland, A, The Carlyle Group LLC, Virginia, of, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Italy, Test, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Strategy, Dunkin' Brands Inc., Annys Shin, Eagle Bank, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., Robert Pincus, California Supreme Court, Ray Rice, Bob Pincus, Blackstreet's, Milestone Capital Partners, Murry Gunty, Premark International, Jacobson Partners, Lazard LLC, Milestone Advisors LLC, Illinois Tool Works Inc.

• Paulson Moves On to Nuts and Bolts of Rescue

  With the political battle over the Bush administration's $700 billion financial rescue package at an end and the real work of rescuing the financial markets just beginning, all eyes are turning to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. Posted Oct 03 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, on, George W. Bush, of, and, Rescue, Harvard University, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Legg Mason Inc., Paulson, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Moves, American International Group Inc., Michele Davis, Mohamed A. -Erian, Timothy Ryan, Nuts, Howard Glaser, Ed Forst, Bolts

• Broad Powers, Lots of Money And Uncertainty

  Congress is on the verge of granting Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. sweeping powers to stabilize the nation's financial system. He would stand largely unfettered by traditional rules,