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."...

Free trade is a child of economic confidence; protectionism is pessimism's progeny...

One of the depressing parts of the New Deal was its willingness to help big labor and big business, a classic case of the seen and the unseen...

So far, the collective response to the economic crisis has been to place extraordinary faith in the power of government to lead us to recovery...