The Oklahoman

... Steve Coll, best-selling author and president of New America Foundation, is scheduled to visit. He won the Pulitzer Prize for “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.”

"The government can't fix this market, which needs to find a new, lower level," writes economics blogger Megan McArdle. "It can only very temporarily ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — a non-partisan organization that includes past congressional and White House budget directors as members of its board — said recently that, if current policy isn’t changed, the debt will reach 100 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product not long after 2020.

"At that level, we are in serious danger,” according to the committee. "The chances of a severe economic and fiscal crisis increase significantly, and our capacity to reverse course quickly diminishes.”

As economics blogger Megan McArdle explains, the companies merely followed accounting procedures, doing the "corporate equivalent of moving your printer ink purchases up by two days in order to deduct them in the current tax year.” ...

On her blog for The Atlantic magazine, business and economics editor Megan McArdle notes that during debate over the $940 billion health care plan,roponents said it would save tens of thousands of lives — one claimed it would lower the death rate 20 percent over the next 10 years — reduce medical bankruptcies and save the government money. ...

Explosive growth in the number and complexity of financial products available to Americans has far outstripped programs aimed at teaching consumers how to choose and use those products, experts said Wednesday at a financial education conference in Oklahoma City.

Consumers have dozens of options unavailable to previous generations in terms of retirement plans, loans and credit cards, said Karen Murrell of the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.