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Fed Has Giant, and Opaque, Role in Financial Crisis Aid

Wall Street analysts, congressional overseers and the media have parsed every detail of the Treasury Department's financial rescue program -- $250 billion and counting.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-23-2008
In Va., a Powerful and Polarizing Pastor

Rob Foster was 16 when his family unraveled. He had told his parents that he wanted to leave Calvary Temple, the Pentecostal church in Sterling the family had attended for decades. But church leaders were blunt with his parents: Throw your son out of the house, or you will be excommunicated. And so....

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-15-2008
U.S. Military Plans Polls and Focus Groups in Iraq

The U.S. military is planning a large polling and focus-group operation in Iraq over the next three years to help "build robust and positive relations with the people of Iraq and to assist the Iraqi people in forming a new government," according to a proposal seeking private contractors for...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-11-2008
Wind and Solar Tax Credits Could Ride Into Law in Bailout Bill

Maybe the tenth time will be a charm. Last night was the tenth time since June 2007 that an extension of wind and solar tax credits have gone to the floor of the Senate. Seven times they have been stuck in bills that have gone to the floor of the House of Representatives.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-01-2008
Why He Jumps In And She Tests The Water

At home, my wife takes care of the utility bills, the checkbook, the grocery store coupons, the mortgage, and occasionally me. I take care of the investments. A few months ago, against her judgment, I moved some money out of a relatively safe, nicely performing mutual fund and into one that was m...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 08-16-2008
Longtime Battle Lines Are Recast In Russia and Georgia's Cyberwar

As the violence unfolded between Russia and Georgia during the past week, hackers waged war on another front: the Internet.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 08-13-2008
Governing in Black and White

One of the unspoken tenets of Barack Obama's candidacy is that his election would be a milestone for race relations, healing many of the country's wounds.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-18-2008
Trying Too Hard, and Suffering in Comparison

We liked the Lincoln. We loved the Buick. Our emotional intensity is affected by product competence. Put another way: The 2008 Buick Lucerne Super, reviewed here last week, trumps today's subject car, the 2009 Lincoln MKS sedan.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-05-2008
Spring's Rally Fades, and Dark Clouds Settle In

Once again, it was a disappointing quarter for U.S. stocks, as a spring rally fueled by investors' optimism that the worst of the financial crisis was over gave way to concerns about inflation, soaring oil prices and renewed fears about the ongoing credit crunch.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-05-2008
Ahead of the Rise in Stocks and Taxes, Switch to a Roth

Panic set in almost as soon as I woke up. The night before, I had rolled over about $130,000 from my traditional individual retirement account to a Roth IRA, thinking it was a smart thing to do. I made the move for tax reasons. Money you put into a traditional IRA is exempt from taxes until you w...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 05-03-2008

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