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Outlook: A Too-Wonderful Lifestyle (Washington Post)
"For three generations, suburban homesteading has been underwritten by our infrastructure spending, our zoning policies, our banking regulations and our tax code. Easy credit, inexpensive mortgages, cheap gasoline, wide-open highways, the heavy hand of federal regulators on any bank that declined to lend in low-income or minority neighborhoods -- if it made homeownership cheap and suburbia ...
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In a Home Like Many Others, Uncertainty in Every Check of the Market (New York Times)
Tyler Pappas is intelligent, in good standing with society and, like so many of us, not quite sure what to do as his family?s life savings shrink by the day.
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Germany and France lead €1 trillion European bailout (Times Online)
Germany and France put mountains of cash on the table today as they led continental Europe in an offensive to rebuild trust in banks with state guarantees worth over one trillion euros (£780 million).
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McCain’s judgment still poor (Bangor Daily News)
Now that most Democrats and even some Republicans are calling for more regulation of Wall Street’s investment and banking industries, it seems fair to recall Sen. John McCain’s ethics violation early in his Senate career during an era of banking regulation.
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Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
A Word From Afar is a regular column that analyses political/strategic/international interest.
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Don't vote for 'useless' Bloc, Harper tells Quebec (CTV British Columbia)
In the dying hours of the election campaign, Stephen Harper ramped up his efforts to win crucial votes in Quebec by attacking the Bloc Quebecois as a "useless" party that can only further isolate the province.
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Finance world big backer of Senator Reed (The Providence Journal)
As a member of the Senate Banking Committee, he has received about a quarter of his current campaign contributions from the finance sector.
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Finance world big backer of Senator Reed (The Providence Journal)
WASHINGTON –– Sen. Jack Reed, a key supporting player in this month’s launch of a $700-billion rescue of the financial system, has taken a large fraction of his multimillion-dollar reelection fund from people in banking, securities, real estate and insurance — the industries with the biggest direct stake in the historic federal intervention.
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Gordon Brown gambles it all on rescue plan (Times Online)
Can anyone stop the financial meltdown before it devastates all our lives? Gordon Brown has tried, but this week will be the test
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Color of Money Live (Washington Post)
Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary will host a free-for-all discussion about money matters.
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