Has the land of free markets and free men become the land of the free lunch?

Now mothers want their children to grow up to be bankruptcy lawyers, because that's where the money is.

Ten years ago, the New York Federal Reserve Bank called upon Lehman Bros. and a handful of other major players on Wall Street to rescue a high-flying hedge fund.

Is there no limit to how much the government can borrow?  How much it can spend?

But what does it mean when the world's most free-market government nationalizes its largest finance industry?

The smart money is looking for safety.

Bill Bonner writes that the idea of taxpayers bailing out the mortgage finance industry is ridiculous.

Bill Bonner looks at the big picture after the fall of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Markets across the globe are sinking.  Apparently, they still had some hope in a speedy U.S. recovery, but no such luck.

What if you have money you have to do something with it.  What do you do?