So the Bush administration wants Congress to approve a rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and not that officials are nervous about the future of the two firms or the state of the housing market or anything -- but they actually worked on a Sunday to come up with it, The New York Times says...

In his final warning before hiking interest rates last week, European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean Claude Trichet said, “If we are not resolute, there is a risk that inflation will explode.”...

The latest episode of EconTalk is a conversation with Mike Munger about what happened in Santiago when the private bus system was replaced with a public system promising a more equitable and efficient system...

If anyone suggested that Tiger Woods should try to be more like other golfers, people would question the sanity of whoever made that suggestion...