Shame is a powerful thing to direct at an aspirant superpower, and Google’s in a position to use it.

Concerns are arising about the role of the US military in Haitian relief and a potential growth of the devastated country’s international debt.

The red carpet is over, the stars have taken their seats, and now Ricky Gervais is about to start his monologue. With Haiti on everyone’s mind, what turn will tonight take?

Senate Democrats don’t care if the Teacher Tax doesn’t translate into higher wages. They get their increased revenues even if American workers don’t get higher wages.

There has been no shortage of crisis books published of late, but Too Big To Fail is by far the biggest and most detailed of them. Full to bursting with facts both momentous and trivial, it presents to us the story of the crisis in close-up detail.

In a full throated mea culpa by the New York Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, appearing in the Sunday edition, the Times officially describes the critical and material implications which arise when readers are misled by undisclosed interests of sources and authors like Jonathan Gruber in their paper of record. Unfortunately, Hoyt and the Times did not have the decency to apologize to Marcy Wheeler for previously inferring otherwise.

Yesterday, Bob Kerrey got off a pretty good zinger about Scott Brown, but it really made Pantload and K-Lo very angry.

JPMorgan Chase is making lots of money. Loans not so much. That qualifies them to explain the proper regulatory response to the financial crisis: don’t hurt my profits.

Brother, can you spare a dime?

If you still have one, look on the back of the coin where it says “e pluribus unum” (out of many, one) and ask yourself this question: Why do many Americans seem to translate the Latin as “be like me or else”?

Asked about Goldman’s secret bets against the housing market while it sold $40 billion in risky mortgage securities in 2006 and 2007, Blankfein said he thought “that the behavior is improper, and we regret the result — the consequence that people have lost money in it.”