| My Home Is Worth What?!
February 7, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| | With property values dropping and personal budgets tightening, the new tax assessments arriving in mailboxes throughout the Washington region are drawing close scrutiny from homeowners. If early appeals are any indication, more people will be seeking to get a break by having their home valuations... 
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| Habitat Option Shines in Dark Times
February 7, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| | Maureen Brooks got the hang of painting and puttying right away. Putting up drywall got to be routine. And she describes raising the roof on her Northeast Washington home as "a joyful occasion, like something right out of 'Extreme Makeover.' " 
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| Bureaucratic Hurdles Slow Auto Loan Program
February 6, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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| | A $25 billion federal loan program to modernize the domestic auto industry isn't moving as fast as car makers and some in Congress would like. 
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| White House Names Board of Outside Economic Experts
February 6, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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| | The Obama administration today announced a team of outside economic advisers, chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker, to help sculpt a response to the deepening recession. 
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| Regulators to Reconsider Financial Requirements for Insurers
February 6, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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| | One week after publicly voting down a plan to grant insurance companies relief from standards meant to safeguard policyholders, an assembly of state regulators is planning to privately revisit the subject today. 
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| U.S. Markets Up Despite Unemployment Numbers
February 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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| | Stocks surged today despite a government report showing that unemployment levels continue to rise. 
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| Obama Raises Stakes for Senate's Economic Stimulus Bill
February 6, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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| President Obama stepped up pressure on Congress today to pass a massive economic stimulus bill, citing new unemployment numbers to charge that further delay is "inexcusable and irresponsible."
 
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| Unemployment Rate Hits 7.6 Percent in January
February 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm
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| | The U.S. economy lost another 598,000 jobs in January, a larger-than-expected decline that highlighted a weak global economy and the pressure building on companies to cut costs and payrolls. 
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| Insurers' Finances Clouded by Bookkeeping Changes
February 6, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| | Allstate, the big insurer, last week declared that despite unprecedented trouble in the markets, it remains financially strong. 
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| Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.
February 6, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| As long as we're about to spend gazillions to stimulate the economy, I'd like to suggest we throw in another $53.5 million for a cause dear to all business journalists: economic literacy. And what better place to start than right here in Washington.
 
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| Suspect Peanuts Sent to Schools
February 6, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| | Peanut Corporation of America sold 32 truckloads of roasted peanuts and peanut butter to the federal government for a free-lunch program for poor children even as the company's internal tests showed that its products were contaminated with salmonella bacteria. 
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| Treasury Overpaid for Bank Assets in Bailout, Oversight Panel Says
February 6, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| | The Bush administration received assets that were worth $78 billion less than the amount it invested as part of the massive infusion of capital into the country's banks, congressional investigators have found. 
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| Mortgage Initiative Mired In Details
February 6, 2009 at 12:00 am
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| | While senior administration officials are finalizing the central elements of their rescue plan for the banking system, they are not as far along in working through the daunting details of how to spend as much as $100 billion to help homeowners facing foreclosure, two sources close to the discussi... 
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