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- How many delinquencies are on new mortgages?
- T. Rowe Price panelists bullish on stocks, economy
- Builders join the smaller-house trend
- Del. Morhaim: The war on drugs has failed
- Factory revival meeting features Ravens' Oher, Rice
- We just hit a new high on the national stupidmeter
- FDIC softens image, drops 'cease and desist'
- Arundel casino developers: We're hiring, buying!
- Should I Stay With Buy and Hold?
- Warning sign: Reich says health bills too costly
- Spam Sunday at Baltimore Craigslist
- Genentech ghostwrites congressional rhetoric
- Hearing set for Erickson money-back guarantee
- Falling U.S. oil production precedes rock & roll crisis
- Black & Decker gone; GBC tries to find bright site
- Computer techs arrested in Madoff probe
- Tyler Cowen says gold is a bubble
- Dodd proposal could transform corporate boards
- Optimism about productivity, hiring
- Secretary Geithner: ALL IS WELL with the dollar
- Analyst sees 'healing' but rising unemployment
- Metro Baltimore gets 'B' on best economies list
- Note to self
- Justice Kennedy: Do as I say...
- Economic indicator of the day
- Erickson seeks protections to reverse deposit fall
- Baltimore's million-dollar homes are selling, too
- A sensible health plan -- that'll never get passed
- Democrats address health-cost spiral -- finally
- Base jobs fuel Harford, but it's no Howard County
- Corporate feudalism for a new dark age
- Most biz lobbies pan health bill; pharma waffles
- Health care: Why Kucinich voted no
- The spam commenters are getting better
- Profiles in wimpiness
- Constellation, EDF close their deal
- Broadcast yacking
- We're making more stuff with many fewer workers
- Cowen: Baltimore TEDx stars made me look good
- Down with the home tax stimulus extension II
- Maryland's addiction to federal spending
- Isakson: It's the last homebuyer giveaway! Really!
- Dominion Retail undercuts BGE's standard price
- Erickson seeks judge's OK to pay severance
- Why weren't subprime borrowers this smart?
- Black & Decker sale not a comment on Maryland
- It's never a good time to lose a Fortune 500 HQ
- Every BGE home gets credit -- even if you switched
- How will a reluctant EDF chief affect partnership?
- After months of doubt, EDF, Constellation OK deal
- Google kills my "lucky" button
- PSC allows deal, but will companies follow through?
- Liveblog: PSC approves CEG/EDF deal with 'conditions' including $100 credit for BGE ratepayers
- PSC report on Constellation/EDF deal due noon today
- New economic challenge: American are saving
- Beware French reports saying EDF/CEG deal dead
- Report: EDF's new boss would dump Constellation
- Another desperate try for slots by Magna
- Ed Hale loses a bachelor pad but gains -- what?
- Erickson residents seem shielded from bankruptcy
- Happy 80th anniversary 1929 stock crash
- Will the PSC slow down BGE's smart meters?
- Will Legg Mason be independent in two years?
- Iceland's crisis costs it McDonald's, Big Macs
- Down with extending the homebuyer tax credit
- BGE 'smart grid' grant is excellent news
- O'Malley's deal has big pricetag for Constellation
- Welcome to the Web, Maryland business-law blog
- Credit score stable for 3 Erickson communities
- Marylanders get relatively few homebuyer tax credits
- Four stocks are driving the Dow today
- $8,000 tax credit REALLY costs $43,000 per house
- Radio today
- This is the way the EDF deal ends
- Will Erickson changes wipe out resident refunds?
- Camo uniforms great publicity for Under Armour
- Ed Hale: Mortgage victim
- Erickson Retirement sold, enters bankruptcy court
- Bad company
- Republicans for health-care reform
- Obama aides decry Wall St. bonuses -- so what?
- Don't give $250 bonus to Social Security recipients
- Hero Sullenberger pushes for pilot pay, dignity
- Latest Maryland car sales beat August clunker surge
- No blogging
- Investors unimpressed with 1st Mariner deal
- States cut taxpayer movie-production giveaways
- Where the jobs are & aren't
- Radical finace reform: How about enforcing the law?
- Mr. Hancock, you're not funny
- Radio blab: Weak dollar, smart Baltimore
- Don't forget the state's other soaring health bill
- Daily Beast ranks Baltimore 10th-smartest city
- Job-creation tax proposal could hurt hiring
- Happy Birthday, Mr. Shattuck
- Finally, the secret of stock markets, revealed
- Nobel panel to labs: More ideas like these, please
- Natural gas savings will beat BGE's 25% estimate
- Apple dumps chamber over greenhouse gases
- Will EDF's new boss kill the Constellation deal?
- Patriotism, the last refuge...
- Are you smarter than a subprime mortgage client?
- Whose bonds to buy? NYC's or PG County's?
- No parachute for Bank of America's Ken Lewis
- Let the first-time homebuyer tax credit expire
- Yes, many prefer to go to Towson University
- Who adds more value, pimps or Realtors?
- Supplier denies excess ethanol hurt police cars
- Twitter investors include T. Rowe Price
- Should O'Malley raise college tuition?
- Ticketmaster moves to expand ticket stranglehold
- Prevailing wage rules delay stimulus
- How many other cars is ethanol crippling?
- Ed Hale's white elephants
- Symphony's Alsop could show CEOs how to lead
- Baucus health-care plan just got more expensive
- FDIC clamps down on First Mariner
- Dear Congress: Fewer tweets, more wisdom, please
- Perma-bear Jim Grant goes bullish on America
- LiveChat Monday on Health Care reform
- Maryland economy treads water in August
- Government limits on banker pay: Blame the bankers
- Cell phone company: Democrats sign with us!
- The economy must really be getting better
- Huge new tax shortfall probably overestimated
- State tries to supress Constellation deal benefits
- Hey Warren Buffett: When opportunity calls, pick up!
- Family tries to reclaim fugitive gold coins
- Baucus health bill has best chance of passing
- Florida regulator dined with FPL exec in NYC
- Who's your favorite Beatle?
- Financial reform: Focus on debt and disclosure
- Should hacks be busted, regulated or ignored?
- Spooky
- Productivity gains could cut medical costs -- without death panels
- What Clean Water Act? Industrial pollution blooms
- Generational inequity and a housing rebound
- Young folks tune out health plan's implications
- Calif. pol resigns after possible affair with utility lobbyist
- Here's how to reform malpractice laws, Mr. Prez
- Scenic quarter coin to feature Fort McHenry
- Unemployed? Where to go online for comfort, advice
- Florida regulators roasted over cosiness with utility
- OK local economy helps lift Ravens finances
- The health care problem, in a nutshell
- Media to Blago: Talk to us and we'll go easy on you
- Unbelievable
- Older workers can't afford to retire
- Constellation-EDF deal would yield state tax windfall
- The SEC on Madoff: Corrupt? No. Incompetent? Yeah
- 'Peak oil' theory takes another hit
- Government-employee layoffs and the budget
- Tax amnesties may be starting to backfire
- When you fudge the books, don't tell the auditor
- Prostate-cancer study shows vexing problems of health-care reform
- Live chat at 11:30 on the old/young job gap
- The old-young unemployment gap -- live chat
- How is O'Malley managing the budget crunch?
- Natural-gas shopping
- Bradford bank fails; assets sold to M&T
- Natural gas prices hit new lows; winter bills should be cheaper
- Electricity regulator attends Derby Day bash at home of Florida Power & Light exec
- The sleazy Dominick Dunne
- Connecticut alleges manipulation by BGE parent
- Health care: conservative myths, liberal myths
- Union should be thrilled with furloughs, not outraged
- Bernanke deserves reappointment
- Health jobs drive Maryland economy -- but how long?
- Laurel Racing won't get readmission to slots bidding
- Write 99 times: Clinton did not create the 1990s boom
- Why we hate health-care change no matter what
- Tackle health costs first, expand coverage later?
- Live Chat at 10 on health care, 'public option'
- Chat today about health reform and 'public option'
- Hopkins' Hanke: Inflation coming, buy gold
- Maybe Whole Foods' board should boycott the CEO
- Stupid email of the day: Happy Birthday Dear Leader
- Hotel offers recession discount -- but bring your own toilet paper
- Baltimore on The Wire, translated for the Brits
- Ross Douthat gets health care right
- The birther movement of 1377
- Credits in the Karma Bank for Bob Dylan
- Brit: U.S. health system ruins far more than U.K.'s
- Fifty years of right-wing paranoia
- Megan McArdle does not like PIRGs
- Will Tribune sell off The Sun, other papers?
- U.S. redesigns penny instead of abolishing it
- Investor's Business Daily and other idiots
- Petty
- Fed keeps rates low, sees further improvement
- Judge: Newspaper union can see Tribune bonuses
- Way to go, Paula Abdul
- Taxing Amazon in Maryland: Easier said than done
- Why air is getting cleaner and power more expensive
- Chevy Volt gets great gas mileage -- what about the kilowatts?
- Stupid press release of the day
- Lying about health reform is unhealthy
- What this blog is about
- Former Bush advisor: Time to tax carbon
- Obama admits it: He can't do it all
- Baltimore real estate hits bottom, faces big climb back
- Evidence of a failed electricity market
- Shopping for electricity to save money
- What happened to Lou Dobbs?
- One and a half cheers for the unemployment report
- Lifestyles of the elite and wonky
- Job seeker: It's brutal out here
- MidAmerican's Sokol touted as Buffett replacement
- Where the pain is worst
- Did stock options cause the recession?
- An inspiring unemployment story with a happy ending
- Constellation Energy's fuzzy math
- Want a job? Look in Maryland, says new report
- Bank of America fined $33m over Merrill bonus disclosure
- Measure economic growth? Take a look from space
- NSA's 11,000 jobs at Fort Meade: New or old?
- Let's hope Maryland dealers get 'cash' from clunkers
- Constellation analyst: 'People's Republic of Maryland'
- Live chat on Maryland jobs & unemployment: Hancock & Cho
- White House seeks to extend cash for clunkers
- Schwarzenegger's most eloquent speech
- Report: Cash for clunkers program suspended
- PSC pushes review of French deal past Constellation's deadline
- Analyst: Layoffs overdone, economy to quickly recover
- T. Rowe Price: July job losses won't be as bad
- Googlopoly, fat taxes and tanning beds
- Blue Dog compromise keeps public health plan
- Should high-frequency trading be banned?
- Employers cutting hours to compensate for minimum wage increase?
- Tribune requests more time for reorganization plan
- Massachusetts health plan wrecking state budget
- AARP questions BGE's 'smart meter' plan
- Blue Dogs: Fiscally responsible or corporate tools?
- Why do hearing aids, unlike other electronics, not fall in price?
- What do BGE smart meters mean for those who buy electricity from WGES and other third parties?
- Metro Station at Six Flags
- Connect with WGES's 3-year electricity deal
- Zappos showed shoes can sell online
- Obama's health plan won't cure all ills
- Did I slight integrated circuit co-inventor Kilby?
- Collender: F-22 fight ain't over
- Way to go, C.G. Woodson Elementary
- A bogus argument against kidney sales
- Howie Kurtz. Not a Verizon fan.
- Are beer commercials done with numbskull-men stereotypes?
- F-22 goes down to defeat in Senate
- Could the government someday tax Roth IRAs?
- The woman who invented financial TV
- The stimulus is working -- in DC and Baltimore!
- Do immigrants make cities safer?
- BGE, Shattuck make offer on rates, pay to O'Malley
- Republican Bruce Bartlett: We must raise taxes
- Recession can't stop Otakon
- Bank of America credit cards belie green shoots
- China's currency: Where's the beef?
- Top income-tax rate for Marylanders hits 57% if health tax goes thru
- Health care reform MUST address costs
- Jim Cramer: Lenny Dykstra "one of the great ones" in finance
- Artists to blow stimulus $$$ like Rimbaud on a lost weekend
- Ex-GM boss yanks $10 million ripcord
- Should O'Malley give taxpayer $$$ to puppet theaters?
- This post not manufactured with MS Word
- Sinclair bankruptcy? Here's why analysts make the big money
- BGE: Smart meter surcharge less than $1.60/month
- The odds catch up to Meredith Whitney
- Talk radio doesn't represent America
- NYT: Cheney ordered CIA to hide program from Congress
- CIA hid program from Congress for 8 years
- Breaking: BGE unveils 'one of the most advanced Smart Grid initiatives in the nation'
- Why did Evian wait a decade for roller babies ad?
- Is Delaware the new tax hell?
- NYT: Ned Kelly eased aside after FDIC clash
- Lenny Dykstra, were index funds too boring for you?
- Citigroup promotes ex-Mercantile chief Ned Kelly
- Dear France: Maryland is not Virginia
- Analysts: No French deal, no new CEG generation
- What the Center for Science in the Public Interest thinks America eats
- Who will say 'no' to excessive medical procedures?
- Google docs: Still in beta
- Study: Maryland has huge potential to cut energy use
- At least McNamara admitted mistakes
- PSC's review of Constellation deal: Still illegal
- BGE natural gas prices edge up for July
- Why did Wal-Mart 'cave' on health care?
- Not a good thing
- O'Malley's doublecross of Constellation
- How do I dig up dirt on somebody?
- Ghetto loans
- Blogging hiatus
- Does fraud increase in recessions?
- The higher-eduction bubble has burst
- Is Maryland Southern or Eastern?
- Tanking Treasuries mimic stocks in reverse
- Boston Globe union votes against pay cuts
- Real taxmen of genius
- Summer BGE electric, natural gas rates
- Free doughnut day -- KFC, this is how it's done
- What is gold telling us about future inflation?
- WGES increases termination fee for electricity
- The best paragraph I read today
- Robert Reich steals my line
- NYT: Colgan Air 'botched' tryouts of new plane
- Radio today: Ron Smith and the Age of the Deal
- Yardeni: Fixing deficit can help country & economy
- Grandview Topless Coffee Shop burns down
- The solution: Tune in, drop out, give up
- Radio today: Rodricks, BGE & Constellation Energy
- The leftist Jay Hancock
- IKEA to buy GM, outsource assembly to consumers
- New tech blog by Gus Sentementes
- Radio today: C4 Show, General Motors
- MPT program on fixing credit, avoiding scams
- Constellation plays ball again with Maryland
- Why are millionaires fleeing Maryland?
- Why does the US get bad PR? It's not the propaganda
- Banks aiming to fiddle the bailout
- Where the Madoff victims are
- BGE enrolls 75,000 Peak Rewards customers
- Are liberal or conservative remedies reviving economy?
- House prices follow Geithner's "adverse" forecast
- Where the jobs are: Government
- Hopkins' Hanke: 'tectonic' currency change coming
- Maryland millionaires flee to keep their boodle
- Mencken on Schwarzenegger, California, Prop. 13
- Just one hitch to the $1,000 Toyota Financial offer
- Can the world afford more economic growth?
- Customer: My KFC ran out of rain checks
- Borrowing from future generations to spend now
- An economic model that will work for newspapers
- Will credit cards ding those paying monthly balances?
- Commuter pilot's dad: Pilots barely make a living
- Signed Abraham Lincoln checks up for auction
- The looming health-care crunch
- How many millionaires has Maryland lost to high taxes?
- How a top economics reporter entered subprime hell
- Have natural gas prices hit bottom?
- William Seidman asked the right questions
- TicketsNow sold phantom DC Springsteen tix
- Why does anybody still listen to Greenspan?
- Welcome Aboard! Colgan Air
- First Mariner soars on big volume
- Postage-stamp costs outpace inflation
- Opposites attract: Tightwads marry spendthrifts
- Merrill Lynch's Rosenberg: Stocks look risky now
- Stress test
- Inventory plunge bodes well for economy
- El Pollo Loco pecks KFC while it's down
- KFC patrons report they can't use Oprah coupons
- Would-be KFC diners have trouble printing coupons
- No need to tell BGE if you switch suppliers
- KFC courting trouble with Oprah coupon giveaway
- Columbia named top town for entrepreneurs
- Stress test
- Key to Powerball-winning sanity: Anonymity
- Will a 7 a.m. kickoff repel 1st Mariner shareholders?
- Falling worker pay shows up in new stats
- Pay survivors if Medicare patients decline care?
- Pigs panic over homo sapiens virus
- Why the House's credit-card bill falls short
- Obama: Chrysler will file bankruptcy today
- Medifast profit increases
- Obama raises the forbidden question
- BofA delays release of shareholder votes
- Consumer spending rose in the first quarter
- Stay in BGE's Peak Rewards plan & switch suppliers
- Shareholders blast Bank of America's Lewis
- End the credit-card madness
- Deep thought
- Shocker: Citi, B of A told to raise capital
- Where to spend infrastructure stimulus dollars
- Engineer welfare
- Spy chief: It wasn't NSA that tapped Harman
- Bulletin: Asteroid hitting Earth would wipe out life
- Overreacting to swine flu
- Tea partiers should count blessings, stop complaining
- Swine flu ate my homework
- Citigroup honcho asked Geithner to be CEO
- Should I still dump BGE's standard product?
- Protesting French workers cut power to homes
- Regulators urged BOA to hide losses from shareholders
- Hanke: Crisis is perfect excuse for big-government fans
- Prime mortgage delinquencies rise 50 percent
- Why make tax breaks for hospitals, the YMCA?
- AP: Stress test goes easier on biggest banks
- How to trash an anti-capitalist rant
- IMF: Toxic-asset losses could hit $4 trillion
- Bulletin: Tax column prompts little hate mail
- Learn what 'portend' means
- Business economists: Recessionary plunge slows
- Why isn't there more stimulus money for the arts?
- General Growth shoppers to fare better than shareholders
- Companies continue to cut pay
- Paying off Hillary's campaign debts
- Greg Mankiw quits Facebook
- March food prices fall for 2nd consecutive month
- So Geithner can't hide all the stress-test results
- Madoff is a Mets fan
- Only illegal industries kill, kidnap, keep private armies
- Goldman Sachs' closet for red ink
- Wind-energy certificates: Clean power or scam?
- On WYPR today
- Let government lend to students directly
- Want to stop rereg, power industry? Build a generator
- Somebody has erased Brad DeLong
- Smallcaps soared 6 percent yesterday
- Signing up for cheaper electricity
- Whom to call for low-income weatherization
- More happy talk on banks
- FAQs on green energy, weatherization tax credits etc.
- Fighting the comment insurgents
- The time to go green on energy is now
- Solving the executive pay problem
- Franchot does Web chat on taxes
- RIP F-22 Raptor
- Megan McArdle explains mark-to-market changes
- BGE's gas price plunges 60 percent from last summer
- Now maybe we'll find out what's up at Ticketmaster
- The very best recession comparison graph
- Howard County's isn't Verizon's first 911 problem
- We need loan mojo for homes AND cars
- EDF accused of hacking Greenpeace's computers
- Who cares about the G-20 summit?
- Don't stop buying 401(k) stocks now
- At least somebody thinks the financial biz will survive
- Is Ed Montgomery the new car czar?
- Wagoner's golden parachute lacks luster
- Perpetual bandwidth motion machine
- Energy shopping FAQs
- Natural gas shopping tools
- Another satisfied reader
- Electricity shopping links
- Electricity shopping, again
- Constellation reverses course on pay deal
- British governments attack corporate-speak
- Utilities ordered to buy next winter's natural gas now
- Holy cow gold rose $70 today
- Gold soars on Fed plans to mint money
- Bad timing for Constellation on exec payments
- Fed money machine does not help the dollar
- More Maryland congressional AIG outrage
- Madoff accountant barely made money for his trouble
- Maryland congresspeople claim outrage at AIG
- Mankiw: Let jobless Leno ticketholders scalp seats
- Not so fast on the good news for bankers
- IRS addresses Madoff victim problems
- Ritholtz: Yes, pay AIG bonuses -- with AIG stock
- Another try to get Maryland out of loan sharking
- Don't be so hard on Madoff investors
- Bill Gross is not saying sell stocks now
- Black & Decker slashes pay, retirement contribution
- Fight back against rising card rates
- Maryland economy did worse last year than thought
- Electric choice helps smart-grid conservation
- Stock bears are getting bullish
- Bring back the public stocks for Madoff, others
- Why Maryland is doing better than the nation
- The greatest danger of recession
- Microsoft Word: Still buggy after all these years
- Plunging Ferrari sales show it's a real recession
- Falling U.S. productivity is more bad news
- JHU's Hanke: Forget stocks, buy inflation bonds
- BGE nat gas price lowest since 2007
- O'Malley's electric plan is re-regulation double-lite
- Magna plays for stupid sympathy in Annapolis
- Mortgage rates need to go lower
- Link to this site, but stop if we say so!!
- It is forbidden to link to this site!!
- T. Rowe Price is Biz Week Customer Service Champ
- Why the Dow Jones average is terrible
- Old Line Bancshares continues to amaze
- The mortgage crisis in miniature
- Wimpy Ticketmaster settlement by New Jersey
- Shattuck sits on Hrabowski's board
- Reporter shortage will allow stimulus abuse
- LaHood's mileage tax idea height of stupidity
- Can you say 'stagflation'?
- Distinguishing blowhards from sages
- W.R. Grace criminal asbestos trial opens
- Ticketmaster: Old folks should avoid buying online
- Grandma: Ticketmaster faked us out on Disney tickets
- SEC uncovers new alleged billion-dollar fraud
- Higher BGE bills caused by frequency variance?
- Did current weirdness make BGE meters run fast?
- Sheriff Lott: Now drop the other pot charges
- I must be doing my job right
- Don't worry, it's only money
- Stimulus bill cracks down on exec pay
- Tom Friedman: Immigrants can bail us out
- Don't worry, some consumer prices are still soaring!
- SC sheriff has more important targets than Phelps
- Why not tax gas by the fill-up, not the gallon
- Illinois leaders move to raise their gas tax
- Obama must kill the zombie banks now
- Vegas mayor: Obama hurt us
- McGraw Hill dumps book critical of S&P
- Mass. guv mulls 29-cent gas-tax increase
- Geithner opposed crackdown on Wall Street
- Ticketmaster problems reported for other shows
- My new BGE bill: $414.06
- Sully Sullenberger: cool customer
- Mankiw: Cut payroll taxes, raise the gas tax
- Watergate's John Dean goes over the edge
- Why is USA Swimming paying Michael Phelps?
- Immigration, again
- Obama's bailout plan: 'No new thinking'
- Somebody likes a gas-tax increase
- BGE natural gas price lowest since 2007
- Dear Mr. Obama: Wealth does not equal success
- Raise the gas tax? Readers say: Are you crazy?
- Wall Street, your barber will see you now
- Democrats and their tax problems
- Clueless arrogance, thy name is Dimon
- Good advice on cutting BGE bills: space heaters
- Barry Levinson's reply to film column
- Jay's boneheaded anti-recession tip
- You think YOUR BGE bill is huge...
- Another thermometer dipped in the Columbia economy
- Create U.S. jobs: Make workers stupid, unproductive
- Saturday night Columbia economic indicators
- The wreck of Suburban Federal, in verse
- Q&A for Suburban depositors, borrowers
- FDIC gets down to business
- RIP Suburban Federal Savings Bank
- Peter Schiff replies to Mike Shedlock
- A step toward financial sanity
- Perfect ammo against the tree-huggers
- More on Hollywood handouts
- Ritholtz: Bank stock surge shows taxpayer ripoff
- Andrew Schiff: We're not Schiff for Senate
- To stimulate or not to stimulate: a spectators' guide
- Federal Reserve: Inflation is dead
- Peter Schiff for senate?
- Struggling Legg tries to create new investment stars
- O'Malley's sensible stance on Hollywood welfare
- Stupid press release of the day
- Hollywood's Maryland bailout
- Maryland's recession is here
- Geithner ought to push for tax simplicity
- Schiff firm: Shedlock exaggerates our clients' losses
- Clip 'n' save: Avoiding Delaware tolls
- Deflating the Peter Schiff bubble
- Homes sales figures slightly encouraging
- Reject Tim Geithner as Treasury secretary
- Obama lets Md., Calif., crack down on car emissions
- Verizon FiOS: The hole in the doughnut
- Intrade modifies depression bet, messes up again
- Geithner comments maul Treasuries
- Baltimore's inflation outpaces the country's
- A great day for America
- GAO: Financial regulation stinks
- How to fix the crisis
- More on immigration
- Unanswered questions about Geithner's taxes
- Horton: Don't double immigration
- Grassley grills Geithner on tax lapses
- The one asset that's booming
- Flaws in Intrade's 'depression' contract
- A grand day for Baltimore
- No crowds yet downtown
- From Howard County to Baltimore for Obama
- Banks to critics: We ARE lending
- Fiscal sanity: Obama seems to get it
- This headline sounds familiar
- Financial earnings reports: The bad and the ugly
- Hunt & Hoisington: Buy Treasuries despite low rates
- Two smart sentences by Megan McArdle
- Deflation exaggerates retail-sales decline
- Sin stock swoon shows economy's pain
- Liberals & libertarians: birds of a feather?
- The winding road to the inauguration
- Another bailout supplicant: defense industry
- Energy expert: Oil-spike story needs more unraveling
- 60 Minutes oil piece doesn't deliver the goods
- Jonathan Murray: Scrap the household budget
- Companies shed jobs, unemployment hits 7.2 percent
- Dollars, dollars everywhere; not a buck to spend
- Mortgage rates hit another low
- Maryland Macy's stores survive pruning shears
- Usually corporate welfare doesn't need bribes
- FERC chief Kelliher to step down
- Congress analysis: 2009 Deficit will hit $1.2 trillion
- Roubini: Recession to be worst since WWII
- BGE natural gas price flat for January
- Baltimore's Schmoke in Illinois Senate-seat fight
- Former Realtors' economist: I put on 'a positive spin'
- What kind of hormone imbalance?
- Dunbar Armored: We move money too!
- My very first cell phone
- Now Feds hope to spur auto lending
- Beware of financial pundits and the stock market
- Is oil cheap only because of the recession?
- Another fake 'memoir'
- First Mariner defers interest on debentures
- Wall Street's Merry Christmas
- It's NOT the worst slump since the Depression -- yet
- Why did Constellation's stock drop?
- Does Matt Simmons still expect $200 oil in two years?
- There are not enough lawyers in the world
- Harborplace officially goes on the block
- Baltimorean: I'm outta here with no late MARC train
- Constellation up $1 today
- The other winners in CEG deal: Shattuck & the board
- Maryland PSC: Don't count us out yet
- Constellation will cut its dividend
- Constellation signs deal with French electric giant
- Constellation cancels Buffett deal in favor of French
- What happens to the prime rate now?
- Bank restriction hinders EDF embrace of Constellation
- Baltimore victims of Bernie Madoff?
- Popping bubbles always reveal Madoff-style trouble
- Seeking to interview long-term unemployed folks
- Your homeland security dollars (not) at work
- How can Treasury bail out automakers?
- Will home values take 'decades' to recover?
- The ethanol lobby whistles past the graveyard
- Save the 10:05 pm MARC train, MTA
- Is it a recession or a depression?
- Woolworth's closes in Britain
- Ulman donates raise to charity
- Obama: No gas tax 'right now'
- Dixon, Ulman decry economy while getting raises
- Blagojevich complaint alleges journalistic pressure
- Tribune files for bankruptcy protection
- Does Buffett's deal let Constellation talk to to Electricite de France?
- Constellation board OKs talks with EDF
- Gas prices near five-year low
- Tribune Co. hires bankruptcy advisors
- BGE natural gas price rises slightly
- September-October job losses revised downward
- Oil is set to break into the $30 range
- Merrill Lynch: Oil could fall to $25 a barrel
- What if Constellation loses BOTH buyout offers?
- Should Constellation shareholders say yes to Buffett?
- Sublime & ridiculous economic thought -- only $90,000
- Constellation eliminating hundreds of jobs
- Constellation rises $3 on French offer
- Ford boss to work for $1 a year
- GM chief to park jet, drive Chevy to Washington
- Constellation: Merger critical for continued business
- Maxed out Marylanders for Obama
- It's official: This is a recession
- Why the Web is so fabulous
- Better than a Pulitzer
- Women with good teeth earn more money
- RIP Doris Dungey aka Tanta
- The two best things in newspapers today
- Minimize your layoffs, employers
- The best economic news yesterday
- Energy prices plummet; food prices don't
- Give to United Way of Central Maryland
- November consumer confidence rises
- Bloggers psychoanalyzed here
- Hopkins' Hanke: This is no Great Depression
- The Worst Economic/Financial Predictions of 2008
- Gold shoots up $50
- One bank that hasn't messed up
- What will Ben Bernanke do next?
- Wall Street shocker: Media doesn't cause crashes
- Plunging prices will help consumers
- Cardinal Stafford: Obama is 'apocalyptic'
- People get sick, even in recessions
- Newspapers = Happiness
- 'Card check' union bill worries Md. businesses
- PSC lays ground to potentially reject Constellation deal
- The Main Street recession is here
- Which companies want pension relief?
- Why we shouldn't bail out GM -- from a liberal
- This is inexcusable
- A book Tyler Cowen likes
- Today's good news
- Lee Iacocca is a popular fellow
- Light: Obama has little room for grand programs
- Paulson shifts gears again on bailout
- The worst recession indicator yet
- Baltimore landlord General Growth warns of default
- NY Post on "Secret Millionaire"
- Uncaffeinated
- Best Buy stock should be up more than 25 cents
- A simple, sensible solution to the housing crisis
- Bill Gates is bullish on inflation
- Constellation to sell Texas plant to raise cash
- Constellation moves might let it reject Buffett
- Molly Shattuck: Reality show was filmed last April
- BGE's November gas price: 96 cents
- Molly Shattuck's new entertainment gig
- Obama's second challenge
- Legg's Mauboussin: Buy stocks now
- Bailout recipient Goldman pays big bonuses
- Hopkins' Hanke: Buy inflation-protection bonds
- Constellation dips after loan delay
- Buffett digs his claws deeper into Constellation
- Obama's economic appointments
- Be nice to call-center employees
- Cuomo pressures bankers on pay
- What's so bad about deflation?
- Legg Mason soars 40 percent
- Fed cuts half a point to 1 percent
- CIA coups for fun and profit
- Mordashov loses $17 billion as Severstal stock dives
- Constellation Energy has not cut its dividend
- Legg Mason stock jumps
- Ugly earnings report from Legg Mason
- Bank bosses show no interest in pay cuts
- Metro Washington: Middling home-price declines
- Maryland car dealers book an OK September
- Why inflation may be a future problem
- Can Constellation wriggle out of Buffett's embrace?
- When economists dissemble and lie
- Greenspan: Crisis shook my free-market worldview
- Total global bailout cost so far: $1.7 trillion
- Buyer's remorse -- for energy, not for homes
- Foreclosure proceedings up 71 percent
- Bear market image of the day
- Maryland's poor business-tax ranking
- Another sign that things may be returning to normal
- Fed to buy paper directly from mutual funds
- RIP George Ferris
- Hip Hop bailout
- Public plutocrats say 'Buy stocks'
- Buffett's buying stocks
- Ms. Moore's class at Carver magnet school rocks
- Yardeni: Cutoff of hedge funds driving market mayhem
- Jim Grant says PHH stock is cheap
- How to tell if things are getting better
- Faber: U.S. government will eventually go bankrupt
- Time to put the Social Security trust fund into stocks?
- EDF exits competition for Constellation
- Analysts: The real financial hurricane is still to come
- Constellation tries to float $2 billion loan
- Meanwhile, back in the real economy
- Did the liberals cause the meltdown? Part II
- The shortest bull market in history?
- No blogging
- Maryland PSC seeks help on Constellation merger
- Be glad you live in Baltimore, not Reykjavik
- Nobel board bypasses U. Md.'s Gallo
- Cramer's panic: A signal to buy stocks?
- Bad news for McCain: Depression expectations
- Baltimore avoids recession (so far)
- Constellation Energy shares simmer on EDF talk
- Profiles in courage
- Did the liberals cause the housing bubble?
- EDF: "Reviewing all its options" on Constellation
- Legg's Bill Miller beats the S&P 500
- Things I wish I hadn't written
- National debt hit $10 trillion yesterday
- Dumb press release of the day
- Good U. Md. conference on financial meltdown
- Help for homeowners in the new bailout bill
- Why get a bailout when you can massage the books?
- Capitol Hill callers now support the bailout
- NYT: Interview with the pirate
- Ireland guarantees all liabilities of six Irish banks
- Pass the bailout now
- Buffett's Constellation buyout "on track" says Shattuck
- Yeah, they'll pass a bailout bill
- Where does the bailout money come from?
- How Maryland's real estate taxes compare nationally
- Hopkins economists against the bailout
- RBC: We'll cover Ferris money-market losses
- The huge gamble that will make all our money back
- Radio today: The country's path to bankruptcy
- Bush's legacy: Inflation or deflation?
- Should I answer this plea for help in transferring funds?
- Breaking: Buffett's next bargain is Goldman Sachs
- WSJ: Taxpayers could get stakes in bailed-out firms
- Bernanke: 'Essential to deal with the crisis at hand'
- Give taxpayers a piece of the bailout action
- EDF: Constellation ignored our $35/share offer
- The feeding frenzy begins
- New York Exchange bans short-selling Legg Mason
- Crisis and government power: Quote of the day
- Bailout plan claims courts immunity
- Report: EDF won't counteroffer on Constellation
- EDF "takes note" of CEG's definitive deal with Buffett
- EDF confirms board meeting on Constellation
- Paper: CEG counteroffer 'most likely' course for EDF
- French paper: EDF preparing counterbid for CEG
- Why is Constellation Energy selling for only $22?
- MidAmerican not a bad partner for Constellation
- CEG to be sold to be sold to MidAmerican
- Two papers now say France's EDF eyes CEG
- Mid-August: Constellation's first stumble
- What could have gone wrong at Constellation?
- Constellation Energy recovers some of its losses
- Constellation Energy plunges $32 today
- Constellation Energy falls again today
- Constellation Energy: Lehman collapse won't hurt us
- Today's GOOD financial news
- Bank of America buying Merrill, Lehman sinks
- Franchot's retort: A 2,000-year-old rhetorical trick
- Fannie, Freddie, tell us again: Don't buy employer stock
- 'Depression' predictions mean it's almost time to buy
- Cool chart: Exports from Baltimore & everywhere else
- The Fannie Freddie bailout is starting to work
- Obama: Shrink parting gifts for Fannie/Freddie CEOs
- Should Legg's Bill Miller step aside?
- Provident, 1st Mariner own no Fannie/Freddie preferred
- The moral meaning of economic terms in the media
- Outliers: The next Malcolm Gladwell book
- Fannie/Freddie bailout will cause some banks to fail
- Fannie Mae down to $1 a share
- Tomorrow's piece on Fannie and Freddie
- Will Fannie - Freddie shareholders get wiped out?
- Falling natural gas prices to help winter heating bills
- Allegany Chamber fails to endorse slots
- Praising, panning proposals to lower drinking age
- The best economic news of the year
- Little-known VP nominees: Palin and Agnew
- The $170 BGE rebate is almost here
- Greg Mankiw ask of Facebook: Why?
- How 'smugglers' depress Maryland's sales-tax revenue
- Another brilliant performance from the MARC trains
- Agony nears end for alternative minimum tax options
- Sarah Palin and taxes
- Oil plummets as Gustav spares Gulf coast
- Will smaller, efficient cars lead to more injuries?
- Berkeley, Calif. cops: Where are our Crown Vics?
- Obama says the magic word
- Md. sale-tax crash: The Delaware-Internet effect
- Democrats: Time to get responsible
- New economic numbers undermine recession talk
- Deck chairs on the USS Fannie Mae
- Little girls' outlaw melon stand back in business
- Obama team: Give us credit for OUR tax cuts
- Offtrack betting? One reader's answer to track problems
- FAA computer failure causes delays at BWI, elsewhere
- My very first twitter
- Sinclair Broadcast airs dubious anti-Obama ad
- No recession in Maryland lottery sales
- The good news: Home sales rise
- Tax Foundation: Obama tax analysis was no hit job
- Fannie and Freddie's mission: Getting rich
- Tax Foundation notes Obama tax clarification
- The Tax Foundation's hit job on Obama
- Exactly how consumers are cutting back
- The world economic boom is over
- Bernanke's speech: the financial gale is still blowing
- Obama's economics
- TV today: Defense contractor yakking on Fox Business
- LNG? What about Baltimore's other explosive hazards?
- You didn't hear about this on NBC's Olympic coverage
- Think Holbrooke wants to be Obama's secretary of state?
- The recession computer says: Not yet!
- What about the Cove Point LNG terminal?
- Teens and drinking: It's the alcohol, not the rebellion
- Why cutting the drinking age would reduce drunkenness
- The problem with drunk college kids
- Merrill Lynch: Recession began in January, won't end soon
- The cookie crumbles for Mrs. Fields
- Obama: Let my successor deal with Social Security pain
- Trump rescues Ed McMahon from foreclosure
- Deadbeat congresswoman's house a 'nuisance'
- New- and used-car prices fall for Maryland
- What Bob Costas isn't telling you about China's Olympics
- RIP Edward Crooke
- Constellation/BGE be not proud
- Inflation hits highest point in 17 years
- The Recession of 2008?
- Credit agency downgrades BGE parent Constellation
- Challenges for BRAC and Aberdeen Proving Ground
- Cool financial chart of the day
- Does Byron Dorgan have a clue?
- Provident takes new hit, delays financial filing
- More on Constellation Energy
- Constellation/BGE stock gets creamed
- Maryland ranks 8th for fast internet connections
- Press releases that make you go 'Huh?'
- Peter Franchot has $728 million in unclaimed property
- When the broker tanks, are client accounts at risk?
- The most interesting paragraph I read so far today
- A 300-point Dow gain -- be very afraid
- National restaurant performance declines
- Massachusetts pension fund fires Legg Mason
- Oil coverage: truth or 'shallow journalism'?
- Baltimore restaurant jobs defy slow economy
- Freddie Mac CEO ignored warnings, pocketed millions
- Oil falls to $119 a barrel
- West Virginia approves key line for Maryland electricity
- Reader: What to do with $18,000 in gold?
- Electricity, natural-gas prices have plunged
- Ex-federal employees and dubious foreign lobbying clients
- Bond shop: Deflation, not inflation, is the main threat
- World Bank: Blame ethanol policy for expensive food
- What those darn mortgage securities are worth
- $4 gas prompts Americans to drive less
- Is it possible to avoid ethanol-laced gas in Maryland?
- Hopkins' Hanke: Dollar could fall further
- Home exchanges: a cheaper, better way to travel
- More defense-contract competition, please
- The only thing cheap in France: wine
- The 3rd International Frank Zappa Conference
- Europe retains strong anti-nuclear sentiment
- How to do mass transit right
- 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
- Readers agree: Legalize drugs
- 401(k) ruling will help T. Rowe Price
- Annapolis lobbyists play fortissimo e triste
- Legg stock falls on worries Citi might sell its stake
- Now Rubin will earn money he made at Citi
- BGE natural gas prices rise 8 percent
- What is it? Economic mystery image of the day
- Pharmacists prescribing drugs: intriguing, but be careful
- Google shares hit $700
- Positive surprises in the economic growth report
- Merrill Lynch guy's golden parachute: $161.5 million
- Radio today
- A Washington official dares to tell the truth
- Grassley: Colleges should use endowments to cut tuition
- On the radio today...
- Something I forgot
- Asia stocks to the moon
- O'Malley crams too much into special session
- Bankers: Know your customer!
- The silver lining of real estate
- iPhones are NOT being used on Verizon, Sprint
- Apple: Welcome to the horizontal world
- Most would prefer a la carte cable TV
- T. Rowe profits boom with target retirement funds
- How long will gold take to prove me right by plunging?
- College students shouldn't trade stocks
- Why can't greedy oil companies just cover costs?
- Secret graphical preview of my Sunday column
- Maryland car sales plunge in September
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Howard Dean gets conservative
- Study: Stock options induce CEOs to make risky bets
- Income share for top 1 percent hits postwar high
- How many feet make one story in a building?
- My favorite windmill comment so far
- Ocean City wind turbines will prompt huge opposition
- Why not raise Md's alcohol tax instead of its sales tax?
- Credit-card come-ons for the college kid
- Credit cards for college kids: Slow down!
- More tidbits from the T. Rowe Price symposium
- Stock tips straight from the T. Rowe Price symposium
- Sometimes stabs at the future go wildly astray
- Sometimes stabs at the future hit home
- Good economic news
- Why are phishing emails so lame?
- Using documents to gauge smuggled antiquities
- Power line decision was crucial -- and inevitable
- Pittsburgh utility quits electric grid over high costs
- Hancock spews "serious and irresponsible innaccuracy"
- Claims for jobless benefits fall: Good news or bad?
- BGE rigged my thermostat
- Hey, the First Amendment works!
- Prof: Housing pain this bad usually causes recession
- What real estate crisis?
- Md. should raise gas tax, moderate income-tax hike
- PHH worth its buyout price, analyst says
- O'Malley tax plan includes a marriage penalty
- Don't lock in a natural-gas contract this winter
- Now O'Malley aims at Delaware corporate tax loophole
- Marylanders in the Forbes 400 richest Americans
- Mattel abjectly apologizes to China
- Readers say: No new taxes!
- Readers to Jay: You're an O'Malley pawn
- O'Malley's tax plan: More details
- Antidote to housing poison: Clearance sales
- Shiller: Home downturn could be worst since Depression
- Baltimore City College's all-star alumni
- Asian stocks go nuts
- O'Malley's plan: Not bad as tax increases go
- Electricity shopping: No good options
- Massachusetts Guv says 'Yes' to casinos
- Homebuilder claims success in deep-discount clearance
- I'm not a socialist & I can prove it
- Harvard economist sees secret rate cut
- Maryland: Why you can't find daycare, & where are the retirees?
- Another reason to cut interest rates
- Legg's Bill Miller buys more Countrywide
- Barn doors & horses: Md. mortgage pros adopt ethics code
- Maryland: The payoff of education
- Maryland: Dating heaven for men, hell for women?
- Maryland: 6th-to-last in mobile homes
- Immigration: Good news for Maryland
- Good news: U.S. exports grow
- 2nd Fed official sees "downward pressure" on economy
- Fed official: Maybe home woes DID hurt wider economy
- Solving bad Verizon service? How about competition?
- Regulate Internet telephone? No!!!
- Terrible jobs report means mortgage mess has spread
- Mortgage delinquencies still below 1991 high
- Maryland: No sign of commercial real estate trouble
- YOU solve the enegy problem...
- Greenspan tells all on his blog
- Irrefutable proof of the obvious
- Maryland's proudest income statistic
- You call yourself rich, Howard County?
- Ohms Energy
- Maryland women: High pay compared with men
- Richest state, enjoy it while you can
- Conservatives against corporate welfare
- The Fed's secret rate cut
- Back on Monday, Aug. 27
- Blogging recession
- Fed may be trying to unmask bad banks
- Secrets of junk emailers
- Fed cuts discount rate this morning
- Take the 12th-grade economics quiz
- Americans don't know their presidents
- A bubble in transoceanic trade?
- A sunny economist turns gloomier
- The real estate investor's prayer
- Australian home lender tanks overnight
- Wall Street gets surreal
- The Fed's smart moves
- Americans continue spending
- Worried Fed plows $35 billion into markets
- Women's pay gap shrinks
- Did BGE underestimate your June bill??
- Why Cole Porter never wrote 'Back in the USSR'
- Grid bosses order voltage reduction
- Electric grid urges conservation
- Jim Cramer goes nuts
- Bill Miller: We'd buy housing stocks now
- Glen Burnie check-printing plant at risk
- American Home Mortgage crashes
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Asian stocks down this morning
- Customer finds no gain in BGE's time-of-use plan
- And now from China: bad tires
- Blah jobs report
- Iowa meditators: Dow will hit 17,000
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Alan Blinder: Raise taxes on venture managers
- Verizon to Baltimore: You'll get FiOS someday
- Under Armour soars $8 on profit results
- Verizon: FIOS customers top 1 million
- Fad stock index of the week
- Fleas, plague and productivity
- Constellation profits sizzle
- Meditate harder!
- Stocks dive for CEG, other power companies
- At the energy summit
- At the Energy Summit
- Cheap(er) gas!
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Electric grid CEO "retires"
- Rate deal in Illinois
- DC: 7 tons of cocaine up the nose & down the drain
- Fatcat CEOs at nonprofit hospitals
- Mankiw: Raise taxes on venture fees
- Globalization remedies for liberals & conservatives
- Hotel inflation
- A investment letter you don't want to get
- Netflix for books?
- OK, sell SOME old CDs for $15
- Medical jobs save metro Baltimore economy
- Great piece on record-company problems
- Melting coins for fun & big profits
- GOOD PR pitch of the day
- Productivity growth forever
- Grid operator: We didn't ask for a watchdog
- Guilty pleas at class-action lawsuit mill
- Predicting (and spinning) the cost of war
- Israeli diplomats trade limos for hybrids
- Energy nirvana on hold -- again!
- Pop economics boom
- Does cooperation fall as testosterone rises?
- WYPR Friday morning
- Financial intelligence peaks at 53
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Treasury note falls below 5 percent
- You thought U.S. gas prices were high?
- Flip this iPhone
- Seeking to interview BGE clients
- Maryland highways aren't worst in nation
- Another East Coast corn likker still
- Mission Impossible: SEC seeks clear financial reports
- Do dumb people make good presidents?
- Rydex being sold to Security Benefit
- Examiner editor insults Baltimore
- Is charity a waste of time & money?
- ADM eyes sugar ethanol in Brazil
- Feds may unleash electricity watchdogs
- FMC closure: Expensive electricity a partial villain
- Stupid PR Pitch of the day
- Wal-Mart's downscale move to check cashing
- Electricity watchdog documents
- Abuse at a nonprofit? Shocking!
- Dear Boss: Frozen hair caused my absence
- The hazards of rebranding
- Why bond pain won't hurt stocks
- State corporate welfare update
- The disadvantages of magazine deadlines
- I-70 lane extension aggravates congestion
- Nice timing, Yale!
- Kilowatt Shopping HQ
- Why the bond dip is a threat to stocks
- Pavlovian reflexes in Chinese stock markets
- Peas in a pod: Maryland & Hong Kong
- New Laureate offer "negligible," says shareholder
- Welcome BGE number crunchers
- Hypocrisy watch: Judge Bork files a lawsuit
- Another conflict of interest between BGE, CEG
- 10-year Treasury yield tops 5%
- Mergers enrich CEOs even if shareholders lose
- Stupid PR pitch of the day
- Laureate offer still stinks
- Gansler busts up Denton pharma monopoly
- Merrill Lynch: No Fed cut this year
- Digene sale a natural development
- BGE changes published prices -- again
- Deferral plan potholes
- BGE confusion
- Another client: Ohms fixed my problem
- Compound rates & BGE II
- Compound rates & BGE
- China bounces back
- Spend money on experience, not stuff
- What the BGE increase is & isn't
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About Jay Hancock
Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.His columns appear Wednesdays and Fridays.
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