What's in the Bill for You
All the talk the last couple of days about the stimulus bill was about compromise and slimming down. What is left, though, is a huge spending bill, with well over $100 billion in tax breaks and handouts for individuals. New York Times article.

Ailing Banks May Require More Aid to Keep Solvent
Some of the nation's large banks, according to economists and other finance experts, are like dead men walking.

Stimulus to Aid Unemployed, Poor
The economic-stimulus package's main goal may be to create jobs, but it would also provide billions of dollars in help for those who have already lost them according to the Wall Street Journal.

Stimulus Aims Two-Phase Jolt at U.S. With Tax Cuts, Spending
The stimulus plan emerging from Congress may jolt the U.S. economy in successive waves according to Bloomberg.

The Worst-Case Scenario
David Brooks hypotehsizes on what might happen with the stimulus.

Failure to Rise
The stimulus bill looks helpful but inadequate, especially when combined with a disappointing plan for rescuing the banks says Paul Krugman.

Is 'Octomom' America's Future?
What's more depressing than the economic slowdown asks Peggy Noonan in the WSJ.