Why is Wall Street Worried?—Let us count the ways...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 281 points yesterday, or 4%, while President Obama began his political push for nationalizing health care and Barney Frank called upon state, local and federal officials to prosecute "those people whose irresponsible and, in some cases, criminal actions helped bring about this crisis."...

Digging deeper: The conventional wisdom that 2010 will be the "year of recovery," as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke put it, is looking a tad inoperative...

Each new day brings further evidence of a financial breakdown that stems in large measure from the inability of the federal and state governments to live within their means...