McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition  —  A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace …

Pelosi orders wide Wall Street probe  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered a broad, swift investigation of Wall Street and will demand testimony from Bush administration officials and captains of finance, congressional officials said.  —  House Democrats plan to aggressively look …

Mr. McCain and the Economy  —  John McCain spent Monday claiming as he had countless times before — that the economy was fundamentally sound.  Had he missed the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the sale of Merrill Lynch, which were announced the day before?  Did he not notice the agonies of the American Insurance Group?

Perhaps, Time for Someone to Play Offense  —  WASHINGTON — Late last week, as Lehman Brothers was collapsing, an all-star group of economists was meeting here to ponder the lessons of the financial crisis.  The group included Donald Kohn, the vice chairman of the Fed, and Edward Lazear …

McCain reportedly ‘furious’ with Fiorina, campaign adviser says she will ‘disappear’ from TV.  —  Today, McCain economic adviser Carly Fiorina bluntly stated that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin were capable of running a major corporation (she said the same of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden).

Fiorina's comment called ‘Biden-like’  —  (CNN) — Top McCain-Palin official Carly Fiorina is facing criticism from some within the campaign for a day of what they call “very Biden-like” comments, after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told two separate interviewers that neither member …