Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, didn’t heed warnings by the Bush administration in 2003 when they said that something was amiss at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He proved short-sighted again in 2005 when John McCain and others put forth a bill for stricter lending practices from [...]

I’ll readily admit that Christmas, once such a major event for me as a child, has lost a bit of its gleam. I don’t want to be a scrooge, but it’s just not as fun as an adult. Really, most of what I’ve done (and will be doing) over the next few days, including today, [...]