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- Fed has less mojo now than in the 1980s
- Trading spaces in France
- Illinois Atty. Genl. withdraws claim on electric plants
- Are Iran attack worries driving up oil?
- Find out how America spent its stimulus checks
- Everybody hates Windows -- even Bill Gates
- Edison Mission: Grid confirms funny bidding was not ours
- Rock 'n' roll tastes of elite economists
- Proxy firm: Protest big exec pay at BGE/Constellation
- Bank of America stock hits new low
- Gary Becker: Offshore drilling, yes; windfall oil tax, no
- Monkey business on the electric grid
- Best political news I've heard all week
- Bear boss privately feared mortgage market was 'toast'
- Reich: Economics, not conspiracy, explains $135 oil
- No, Sen. Obama, technology doesn't generally harm workers
- Ex-Citigroup boss cuts price on Greenwich mansion
- Firefox D-day: Fight the power
- The most sobering 5 sentences I've read this month
- Wholesale inflation hits 18% annual rate -- but don't worry!
- What not to own this summer: a 'destination' resort
- Cindy McCain's $225,000 credit card debt
- Hopkins prof: Let investors tap government oil reserve
- Most 'negative equity' homeowners don't default
- Today's inflation report casts store sales in different light
- The next energy pain: natural gas
- This won't help the housing market
- New coalition to fight unfair electricity prices
- Retail sales: Can Wall Street really be this dumb?
- Letter is wrong on Arctic oil reserves
- The heresies of Obama's new economic advisor
- PSC: Ohms Energy electricity refunds arriving soon
- Now CEOs get paid for being dead
- A great May for McDonald's
- Lining up for cheap(er) gas
- Merger & acquisition action for Legg Mason?
- Ed McMahon's mortgage
- In the long run, we are all the Grateful Dead
- Junk rating is too good for this economy
- Get yer McCain golf totes and Obama water jugs here
- Retirement plans: IRS outweigh pensions and 401(k)s
- Hopkins' Hanke on Greenspan's bubble
- Buy 50 gallons of gas, get a molecule free
- O'Malley's economic development makeover
- Blabbing about electric rates tomorrow
- Duh. GM rethinks the Hummer
- U.S. cars do very well in quality survey
- PSC suit would save BGE ratepayers $1 billion
- Maryland regulators: Electric prices unjust and unreasonable
- $4.07 gas in Baltimore
- Republicans do it, too
- Discounters avoid profit squeeze -- for now
- Bond market starts to take inflation seriouisly
- Nobel winner: Ethanol policy makes hunger worse
- SocGen's alleged rogue trader does a photo shoot
- Obama, Hillary, McCain ignore budget problems
- Recession hits the Hamptons
- Hillary's conditional apology on Kennedy remark
- Schwarzenegger: Gay marriage is good for economy
- Anheuser takeover? Maybe buyouts aren't dead yet
- The future of Maryland's spy industry
- Columbia's tyrannical clothesline rules
- Celebrity mortgage victims: a congresswoman
- Countrywide's Mozilo stinks at mortgages & email
- Secrets of blabfest talk TV: 'Rip into him'
- Oil is $132 a barrel
- Wholesale electricity dysfunctions and outrages
- Today's column: Feds pull punches in electricity probe
- Cool chart of the day: Where the cheap(er) gas is
- Warren Buffett backs Obama
- Anti-LNG terminal activist dies of lung cancer
- Insurance law will help 'thousands' of young adults
- How government is like a subprime mortgage borrower
- Domino employee's son responds to sugar column
- Domino Foods' President on the farm bill
- Obama supports the farm bill
- Today's column: A sugar farmer objects
- Don't get excited over 'housing rebound' story
- Maryland nursing home quality slides in 2007
- Fed's balance sheet starts to look like Bear Stearns'
- Gas rises at 92% annual rate; inflation has 'eased'
- How would you like a 400% increase in electric rates?
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Bernanke: Financial markets 'far from normal'
- Bank of America's home-equity losses rise
- JPMorgan Chase: Recession has just begun
- In favor of $200 oil and high gas taxes
- McCain's economic plan: What about war & Medicare?
- My date with a movie star
- How to negotiate your taxes lower
- An oil bubble to rival the Internet boom?
- Health-plan extension to age 25 doesn't cover most Marylanders
- Fill out a living will today
- A boomer objects (vociferously) to my boomer column
- Sempra pulls plug on badly needed electric plant
- Stamp prices to rise, must stay within inflation rate
- Why have oil and gold prices diverged?
- Martin Feldstein: The recession began in February
- About those H-1B visas, your majesty
- Today's best news
- The anti-Generation Y lobby strikes back
- Legg Mason takes breather, may have more uphill ahead
- Another beautifully terrifying home-price map
- Legg Mason seeks $1 billion capital infusion
- BGE prices: Goodbye non-summer discount
- Finally: An economist defends Hillary's gas-tax cut
- The rise of China etc. doesn't mean America's decline
- First Canseco walks away, now Bank of America?
- What Hillary's economists say about her dissing economics
- The home-equity ATM shuts down
- Jose Canseco: Mortgage victim
- The cheap dollar fails to help factory employment
- What will mortgage brokers do next?
- Is Hillary's and McCain's idea to cut the gas tax smart?
- Why quote the White House on economic stats?
- Krugman: Less than meets the eye in GDP report
- The next bubble: Emerging markets?
- Recession -- and more? -- hits Starbucks
- Exact new BGE rates available Friday
- It still feels like a recession
- Today's column: Ruining our children and grandchildren
- BGE time-of-use plan details
- Metro DC home prices fall in latest report
- Johns Hopkins' Hanke: Bubbleproof yourself with gold
- Carlyle's Rubenstein bullish on U.S. finance industry
- State solar-panel incentives rise to as much as $10,000
- The last free-trade Democrat standing
- Recession tactic: Trade Corona for Keystone, filet for Jiff
- My new guilty pleasure
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Why deregulation is an electric-company bonanza
- Jos. A. Bank CEO replies to critical column
- Consumer confidence hits 25-year low
- Profiles in courage
- Hancock misses point in Jos. A. Bank column
- Marylanders need bigger discounts for night electricity
- How can you shop for electricity if prices are secret?
- Beware of proclaiming oil bubbles
- Ohio pols strike an electricity deal
- WSJ Fed article helps dollar, depresses oil
- The Fed worries about its credibility, the dollar
- Rice rationing at Sam's Club
- How to fix the shortage of transplant kidneys
- BGE's time-of-use rates for the summer
- Target's credit-card losses climb
- Emerging markets bullish on tobacco, cancer, too
- The best deal on summer electricity
- Kilowatt shopping
- A miserable March for Maryland car dealers
- Knocking down the "oil is a bubble" argument
- Megan McArdle forecasts commodity prices
- Baltimore's Marlin Steel Wire makes Newsweek
- New electricity prices posted
- A bull market in Malthus references
- And the most pro-business nation is... Denmark??
- How the Clintons think government should work
- What Pope Benedict thought was so important
- Today's column: the oil bubble
- Borders Books' makeover comes to Maryland
- Citigroup loses another $5 billion, to cut 9,000 more jobs
- A problem Maryland needs: An illegal electric plant
- Former Treasury boss: Strong-dollar policy a "vacuous notion"
- New U.S. bumped-traveler rules more like Europe's
- Md. regulators extend probe of troubled bond insurer
- Economist Lacy Hunt: Slump to last at least 2 years
- Ohio electricity mess mirrors Maryland's
- Rail cargo doing better than air
- How to really fix the tax system
- March Maryland foreclosures quadruple from year ago
- Wholesale inflation soars in March
- Gary Becker: Ethanol partly to blame for food shortages
- Now Attorney General Gansler colors outside the lines
- Bush Abolishes Taxes, Death; Move to Benefit McCain
- Welcome to Maryland: Bring Your Wallet
- Baltimore did get accused of cutting yellow-light time
- Run don't walk to the Walters Art Museum map show
- Why is Verizon offering to save me money?
- Provident capital injection includes execs, directors
- Provident cuts dividend amid "economic uncertainty"
- Deflation: What Greenspan said in closed meetings
- Today's column: Ferris missed a chance to act
- Another city cuts yellow traffic-signal time to boost fines
- BGE: All households get $170 regardless of usage
- American Airlines: Not the way to handle a PR crisis
- BGE, parent scrapped executive role that troubled PSC
- Who gets the $170 BGE rebate
- BGE families get $170 regardless of electric supplier
- $2 billion in BGE rollbacks? I doubt it
- BGE settlement leaves Maryland power options open
- Author: Why Baltimore cops like drug dealers
- Greenspan: It wasn't my fault. Really!
- Mortgage association has trouble with its mortgage
- Senate power plant amendment is half-baked
- Regulators altered high-price protections in BGE auction
- What I learned from surfing airline ticket sites
- What the Gansler announcement was about
- Uh oh. Better get Maaco
- 'Major' Gansler announcement on cell phones
- Why aren't there more mortgage-fraud prosecutions?
- Wall Street's fantasy economy
- Unemployment claims hit two-year high
- Full report on BGE auctions won't appear till next week
- Cities alter signals to boost red-light ticket revenue
- Every breath you take, Ben Bernanke
- Ed Yardeni sounds bullish again
- Today's column: BGE, give more to the Fuel Fund
- PSC report glides over BGE auction problem
- Bush-Paulson financial plan gets panned
- Newspapers make democracy work
- No recession here, Maryland help-wanted ads suggest
- Online employment ads fall for first time
- Document file: O'Malley-Constellation deal
- Environment Maryland: Cut carbon without harming steel mill
- More thoughts on the Constellation settlement
- Some things (but not gas) are getting cheaper
- Hancock's capitalistic skeleton
- BGE/Constellation deal: Could O'Malley have gotten more?
- Hancock misses point on Sparrows Point
- Sparrows Point is more than 2,500 jobs
- Illegal immigrants prop up Social Security
- Today's column: Carbon tax will harm Sparrows Point
- On the radio today
- Verizon cable breaches the urban frontier
- The cost of war in Iraq
- Free-trade wisdom of the day
- Nuisance email multipler appliance switched off
- Blog blackout
- Mortgage rates move back toward normal
- Regulators fiddle while subprimes burn
- JPMorgan shares soar $4 on Bear Stearns buy
- Legg Mason Value Trust: Bear Stearns effect not disastrous
- Dow down only 100 after first half hour
- Bear Stearns bailout: nationalization in all but name
- Recession expert: This could be worst slump since WWII
- 10-year Treasury yield hits 4-year low
- Bernanke promises to help homeowners
- Details of the Bear Stearns bailout
- This panic, too, shall pass
- The lawyers will have a field day with this one
- Study: Area electric, natural gas prices higher than average
- What I bet Bernanke is doing right now
- Recession: The restaurants feel it first
- Muni Mae stock steady after another hit
- Maryland economic history of the day
- Radio today
- Fed's move causes further dollar erosion
- Baltimore's Marlin Steel Wire in Popular Mechanics
- Billionaire Wilbur Ross: Expect bank failures
- What are these economists inhaling?
- Study: DC/Baltimore 5th-fastest growing in venture capital
- Another, overlooked benefit from free trade
- GAO: Feds do little to prevent utility funds transfer
- Maryland's most admired companies
- Why aren't we raising heck about Pepco electric rates?
- Carlyle Group defaults on more margin calls
- Municipal bonds begin to recover from shock
- Huge market news: a rumor of a rumor of a rumor
- Countrywide's Mozilo: I'll forego $36 million
- New job data: The recession is here
- More from the Waxman report on mortgage-CEO pay
- Countrywide boss: Blame the 'left wing anti business press'
- S&P: Housing crisis worse than we thought 2 months ago
- GAO: 2010 Census at "high risk" of fraud, mismanagement
- The moral limits of taxation
- Fed sees commercial real estate slip in Baltimore
- What mortgage mess? WaMu may award exec bonuses anyway
- U.S. gas supplies are still plentiful
- The good economic news
- Buffett on government-pension "time bomb"
- Another step toward forced ethanol use
- Saudis decide oil is a better bet than wheat
- Bernanke to banks: Cut what's owed on troubled mortgages
- Warren Buffett: We're in a recession
- Ed Yardeni: The recession is here
- Blog blackout
- Create financial charts, track CEO pay on SEC Web site
- Provident to write off millions more real-estate investment
- Constellation gives more money to Shattuck
- The mortgage-refinancing sweet spot is gone
- Economics in the movies
- Realtors' economist: Housing about to rebound
- Did a recession begin late last year?
- Nissan chief: U.S. car market is in recession
- A brilliant masterpiece of financial verse
- Food inflation heads higher, thanks in part to ethanol
- An even better name for operating cash flow
- The poetry of stock options
- Another sign of Maryland's slumping economy
- More on gay marriage
- More comments on economics & gay marriage
- This does not indicate tame inflation or a weak world economy
- Ferris, Baker fixes Dain Rauscher typo
- Confidence in economy grows dim and dimmer
- The very latest in earnings-report gibberish
- China's inflation hits 11-year high
- Oops: Ferris, Baker misspells name of new owner
- The 1929 Baltimore stock broker suicide
- Where to buy non-BGE and low-pollution electricity
- Regulate this: Britain's supermarket czar
- Top 10 insurance movies of all time
- Refinance mortgage now or wait?
- Government's only fiscal truthteller to quit
- Gilchrest, Wynn losses bode ill for political harmony
- The good thing about cheap dollars
- A prophetic warning against electricity deregulation
- What the heck? January retail sales rise
- Warren Buffett has not saved the world
- Allstate can't be forced to insure beach homes
- Shocker: Ethanol use increases greenhouse gases
- Dow index adds Chevron, "buying high" once again
- BGE February gas prices stay (relatively) low
- Happiness update
- RIP Julian Simon
- Money does buy happiness, it turns out
- Goldman Sachs: We're in a recession
- Fed's Yellen: We'll avoid a recession
- GBC: Stop the 'warfare' against Constellation
- January sales fall at Nordstrom, Target, Macy's
- Government financial secrets unveiled: Missouri shows how
- Mandel can't believe today's productivity number
- Fed official waxes hawkish on inflation, spooks market
- Dining@Large can't resist cheeseburger in a can
- The most important economic statistic
- The vigilante stock market is back
- Huge traffic on market blogs: A 'buy' signal for stocks?
- "Employee separation" at WYPR
- Cheeseburger in a can
- Recession is here: U.S. shed jobs in January
- Chocolate inflation
- Constellation gets tough
- Where was inflation hawk Bill Poole at the Fed meeting?
- PSC: Tell us what's wrong with our report, BGE
- The scariest five sentences I read yesterday
- The Associated Press's innumeracy
- Metro Washington: Medium-bad home-price decline
- How the president can fix the economy and every problem
- Nice gift from Gates, but Africa mainly needs free trade
- Yardeni: The recession is almost over
- Rogue (traders') gallery
- Buy shares in relief pitcher Randy Newsom -- really
- Hedge fund: Sorry about our $80 million electric default
- Why Duquesne Light is quitting the PJM grid
- Merrill Lynch: Home prices to fall more than 25 percent
- Fed's Poole sees bigger inflation threat than recession
- A teeny tiny piece of good news
- Happy Birthday
- Welcome to Wall Street, Under Armour
- Down with the fiscal stimulus
- Maryland pension system ekes small July - Dec. gain
- Bernanke: Stimulate quickly and get it over with
- Bernanke: Stimulus OK if Congress doesn't mess it up
- Maryland car sales fall 9.6 percent in December
- Constellation: None of our plants reaped alleged excess profit
- PSC: Electric companies should pay back excess profits
- PSC: Lack of electric competition cost Marylanders $87.5 million
- Legislature may prohibit gambling-loss deductions
- A very bad economic reading
- Legg Mason raises $1.25 billion through KKR
- Survey: More consumers plan to cut spending
- Now YOU run the Fed: Online interactive game
- For a disturbing look at Md.'s horse-racing future
- Go jump your own shark
- Mid-Atlantic grid names new CEO after turmoil
- Electric consultant: Power Edge default cost us 20K
- How could Baltimore lose subpoenas for 2 months?
- Now credit card companies warn of trouble
- WSJ: Bank of America in talks to buy Countrywide
- Delaware: Worried about Maryland's low taxes
- Home Depot: We fixed our Maryland sales tax glitch
- Power Edge default exposes electric market flaws
- Tax victim: I lost my home & retirement savings to AMT
- National foreclosure map, county by county
- GAO: Numerous security flaws in IRS computers
- With the economy tanking, why are stocks so high?
- Examiner on Maryland taxes vs. Virginia taxes
- Intrade recession probability rises to 64 percent
- BGE natural gas price falls even as oil soars
- Can we believe government job-growth numbers?
- New Maryland sales tax is really MORE than 6 percent
- John Berry: No recession this year
- The conservative ethos
- When to buy stocks
- Oil hits $100 a barrel
- Credit analyst very unimpressed by Sinclair acquisitions
- What I learned from thousands of Ron Paul supporters
- PHH sale collapses
- How to drive blog traffic
- Albert Einstein on what's important
- Shiller says housing slump could last years
- Baiting the Ron Paul trolls on the income tax
- How to get rich: Buy when everybody else sells
- Baltimore-Washington inflation worse than country's
- JHU's Hanke: U.S. should intervene to boost dollar
- Quote of the day
- Mortgage bond insurer gives control to Maryland regulators
- Now showing: Credit problems in electricity market
- Economic strength is more than rock-bottom taxes
- Complaints about Christmas commercialism...
- Blogging hiatus
- Merrill Lynch: Tax-refund delays could cause defaults
- Poor disclosure penalizes efficient charities
- Did Apple pay Think Secret to shut down?
- Quote of the day
- IRS avoids shedding full light on charities
- College kids & credit cards
- Quote of the day
- Feds bust Cuban cigar buyers while "greater threat" looms
- Where the houses are depreciating
- Larry Summers: Wost economy since 1980s "distinctly possible"
- Quote of the day
- Best Buy: What recession?
- Quote of the day
- When you write columns advocating legalizing drugs...
- Big business, Ralph Nader agree: Electricity probe needed
- Hancock: Poster boy of Sun liberalism
- Quote of the day
- How low can housing/mortgage stocks go?
- Provident mortgage case not as pro-consumer as touted
- Quote of the Day
- Ciena burned by mortgage meltdown
- Quote of the day
- Maryland November retail sales nearly flat
- Annapolis Democrats too eager to change the rules
- Quote of the day
- The vigilante stock market
- Stocks plunge after quarter-percent rate cut
- Maryland Nonprofits: Program is more than good governance
- It's OK, BWI: New international routes will come sometime
- So much for canny, parsimonious Swiss bankers
- Harvard uses $35 billion endowment to cut tuition
- Dow's October record: A Barry-Bonds-style asterisk?
- Laws require nonprofits to be honest -- yes, but...
- Take that, Bill O'Reilly
- Collateralized debt obligations -- in pretty pictures
- Down with economic nationalism
- How to donate to a good nonprofit
- Congress refuses to make fatcats pay their share
- Reuters covers the stupid press release of the day
- What does Black & Decker pay in BaltCo tax?
- Verizon: We're not dumping pay phones
- BGE natural gas cost inches up for December
- Baltimore County's top 15 taxpayers -- outed
- Stupid press release of the day
- Emerging markets: Uh Oh.
- The quote John Grisham may wish he could take back
- But what about losers with no cell phone (like me)?
- PSC: No economic benefits from new wind power
- PSC: We will "force" new electricity generation if needed
- U.S. national debt grows by $1 million a minute
- A la carte TV pricing will come -- on the Internet
- Doh!
- The Sun could be sold, reports financial paper
- Maryland car sales recover in October
- Another trial lawyer in trouble
- Commercial real estate begins to cave
- Spreading mortgage mess: now Wells Fargo
- Radio today: Legalize heroin & end the war on drugs
- 12 Days of Christmas gifts get more expensive
- Platinum MasterCard members, be not proud
- Happy Thanksgiving
- This is the winter to heat with natural gas
- Bill Gates takes $24 million bath in ethanol
- What are the tubes on I-95?
- Blogger: Newspapers underplay inflation
- Study: Overweight people make less money
- What makes America great
- Legg Mason bails out money market fund
- Stupid ad of the day
- Hell hath no fury like a special interest questioned
- The tax on U.S. book exports to Canada
- Cut Delaware out of Thanksgiving
- Read Real Estate Wonk
- More readers say: Yes, legalize drugs
- Top U.S. auditor: Indebted nation can't continue like this
- Milton Friedman on legalizing drugs