Could this mean that “too big to fail” is no longer operable? Or that sometimes history’s lessons may be absorbed: The [J. P.] Morgan teams ran “stress tests” on the unregulated trust companies, figuring out which were impossibly overleveraged and should be allowed to fail, and which were basically sound but crippled by the panic….

• Well, it’s a start.
• Ditto.
• Paging Ben and Tim…
• Wall St. to the government: give us our bonuses or else.
• The markets and everyone else hate Obama update.
• Populist rage update.
• You stay classy, wingnuts.
• Sorry about my marriage.
• Ugly.
• The latest from America’s Favorite Washed Up Action Hero.

Virtually every African-American with an (R) behind their name gets to be a political analyst on cable news.

Chris Gaines is if fictional character created as an alter ego for Garth Brooks.

To the ramparts! Michele Bachmann urges Minnesotans to declare war on the United States.

How much is too much for the Sons of Iraq?

I used to believe that massive government fraud and corruption was something that took place behind the scenes. If anyone tried it in the light of day, they’d be summarily fired, publically vilified, and probably indicted. But Tim Geithner’s plan to remove toxic assets from the banking system is making it all respectable.

NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH: Lots of shots of decomposing bodies, skeletons and such. Plus frank discussion of postmortem facts.

Please stay on topic-in this case, forsenics, death, the American way of dealng wiht funeral, bodies, etc.As usual, no ad hominen attacks and try to keep the language as clean as you can. Thanks!

Harold Hongju Koh joins the Obama administration.

William Black is not the guy you want to talk with for an hour and a half on a Friday night if you want to sleep well knowing all is right with the world. He’s white-collar criminologist and former financial regulator who teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, and he’s written many of the canonical pieces on the role of mortgage fraud in the financial crisis.