When you hold 90% of the market in something, how do you get out of it without tanking prices? That’s the problem the U.S. faces with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which requested $3.1 billion more in aid from the Treasury Department Friday as part of their ongoing conservatorship with the federal government. On the one hand, there’s a …

Back in November, when President Obama announced his proposal to freeze pay for non-military federal workers, I speculated a bit about the effect that might have on relatively young financial regulatory efforts:

…filling out personnel in the new financial regulatory regime created by Dodd-Frank is crucial to the efficacy of law. While

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Apparently, one very famous Republican made a name for himself by taking flight to deny his opponents a quorum:

That’s when Lincoln determined to keep the legislature in session in order to buy precious time for the bank to find a way to survive, and that’s how he jumped into the national limelight on December 5, 1840. On that date,

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How do you restrain a megalomaniacal despot with unlimited funds who has a history of slaughtering innocents and could disrupt energy flows from the world’s 9th largest petroleum exporting country? President Obama took a stab at it this evening, using the threat of “accountability” repeatedly in brief remarks from the White House. But …

When it comes to legislators, men are to be expected and ladies are to be exceptions. We may see a lot of Sarah Palin on TV, but the inordinate amount of coverage she gets really just goes to show how folks become atwitter when a woman, much less a Republican one, walks onto the national political scene. Her sudden emergence in 2008 …