Exhibit A in Sen. Barack Obama's case that he is the women's candidate, despite Sen. John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, is that "she's opposed, like John McCain is, to equal pay for equal work."...

“Go back to your constituencies and prepare for Government” is the usual expectant Leader’s injunction at the end of his Conference Speech...

In considering what needs to be done to improve the functioning of the financial system, it is necessary to distinguish steps to avoid a major depression in the near term from long run reforms of the financial system...

Obama’s constant deference to McCain as in “John is right…”; the worried side-looks over at McCain, who, in contrast, addressed the audience; and the desire for false intimacy (employing “John” instead of “Sen. McCain”) reflected the relative lack of gravitas on Obama’s part—something that transcends education, eloquence, and youthful vigor...

In this post, I provided excerpts from an article describing how Congress had leaned on Fannie Mae to encourage loans for mobile homes, known in the industry as manufactured homes...

Sometimes people outside the US have views of US elections that are, at the least, different from those within and, more often, illuminating...

The new governor of the Central Bank of Iran says providing needed liquidity to producers will lead to greater output and lower prices...

One candidate cited Churchill and Eisenhower, and described George Shultz, who served in Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, as a “great secretary of state.”...

House Republican lawmakers today are set to resume participation in talks on a $700 billion rescue plan for the U.S. financial system, giving new momentum to forge an agreement...

Here’s CQ Politics’ round-up of reaction to how John McCain and Barack Obama did in the first presidential debate...

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan co-signed a letter calling for lawmakers to take action to relieve the financial crisis. Greenspan, along with former Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Robert Hall of the Hoover Institution, declined to back a specific plan, instead saying, “We endorse all plans that would preserve the key functions of the threatened financial institutions.” Full text of the letter follows:...

John Abizaid, the longest-serving leader of U.S. Central Command (CentCom) and former top commander for the wars and counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, will give a free presentation, “The Foreign Policy Challenges of our Next President,” on Oct. 1, 7 p.m., at the Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom on the University of Nevada, Reno campus...

Canada 2020 and Financial Times co-host conference on the U.S. economic crisis...