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The Distress Test After a horrific week on Wall Street, the question in Washington seems to be: Can what you don’t know not hurt you? With fears that the U.S. economy is at a precipice, Bush administration officials go to Congress and ask for carte blanche in buying billions of dollars in dist...
President Bush on Monday said, "The Secretary and I share the concerns of our citizens, concerns about jobs, concerns about their savings accounts. This is a tough situation for America. But we'll recover from it. And the first step to recovery is to safeguard our financial system."
Sun, Nov 23 | from Whitehouse.gov