Archive for July, 2011

Limit regulations to banking

In response to John F. McDonald’s Outside Opinion in the July 24 Business section, “Next boom, bust require regulations,” I agree that had we maintained regulations of the financial institution and banking industry, the…

The debt ceiling fight has been long and exhausting, but it will have a big payoff. After it’s finally resolved — with the Boehner plan or the Reid plan or something else — we will have confronted our budget crisis, made tough choices and…

Among other things, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is designed to:

•Make credit card disclosures shorter and clearer.

•Write mortgage paperwork in…

State officials have quietly begun preparing contingency plans for handling state finances if a gridlocked federal government fails to reach agreement in the next week on a plan to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, which could force Washington to ration…

It is only in comparison to today’s Republican Party, divided between its old-school establishment and its tea party zealots, that today’s Democrats look unified.

In fact, as President Barack Obama prepares to face whomever the Grand Old Party…

Doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies might not get paid for products and services if the federal government defaults on its debt next week.

Actor Matt Damon rallied teachers Saturday at a march in Washington decrying the widespread use of standardized testing to judge how well teachers, students and schools are performing.