All the federal bailouts, treasury cash injections and foreign infusion of funds into our institutions/stocks has meant that America's national debt is set to pass $10,000,000,000,000 this week. To put this in perspective, the $700 billion bailout is only 7% of the forecasted national debt, small change by comparison. Unfortunately longer term the national debt is set to go even higher; thanks to funding needs for the ongoing government intervention and regulatory activities.

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The CoDR is up at No Debt Plan

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Two encounters with illness have cost David of My Two Dollars and his wife nearly $10,000 out-of-pocket so far this year, and that's not including the $320 a month they were paying for health insurance premiums.

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We’re in hurricane season, and early last week there were five named Atlantic storms on the map: Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, and Karina. Hanna is flying up the east coast of the United States as I’m putting this Carnival together.

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Wow, this is a great post.

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