This column was written by The Editors of the New Republic. In the brief weeks that Barack Obama has been president, the n-word has been heard with startling frequency in Washington. We're talking ...

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America remains deeply conflicted about federal regulators’ crisis response. By Neil Irwin The loan portfolio consists mostly of commercial real estate loans in Ireland and Britain but also includes ...

Tyler Cowen makes the important point that when it comes to nationalization, nationalizing one bank isn’t the problem. The problem is that once you nationalize, or even start talking seriously about ...

Bill Moyers had our boy David Sirota on his show Friday, along with Thomas Frank (historian and new Wall Street Journal columnist), and the three dove into the $700 bailout passed last fall and its ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A group of Russian business owners reportedly spoke with President ...

I had a fascinating talk with a government official who will, sadly, have to go unnamed and undescribed. I wanted to know if the rumors are true and many in government see nationalization of the banks ...

Felix Salmon, who has been banging the drums for the U.S. government to start nationalizing banks, cites a piece by the economist William Buiter as supporting the argument that the U.S. should ...

Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Sunday that bank nationalization was "as American as apple pie" during a round-table discussion on "This Week" with George ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As we wait on pins and needles for the Obama administration's finance-sector rescue plan next week, investors, moguls, ...