Reform

Banking practices are targets for reform (San Diego Union-Tribune)

20 Jul 2008

It's not over. Despite midweek relief for financial stocks, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney says the financial markets won't be able to stabilize until there is more truth-telling. Rather than trickling out write-downs and sour news, Whitney says banks need to “get real� about their “true asset values.�

Health-insurance industry wants to show it is reform-minded (The Columbus Dispatch)

20 Jul 2008

The health-care-insurance industry isn't the biggest corporate boogeyman of the moment. But it sure isn't viewed in warm and fuzzy terms by the average American.

BRIAN DICKERSON: Is bogus reform initiative organized labor's last gasp? (Detroit Free Press)

20 Jul 2008

What began as a secretive, profoundly cynical initiative effort to reverse years of Democratic losses in Michigan is quickly devolving into a full-blown fiasco.