After the stunning rejection of the $700B Bailout Bill, supporters scrambled to decide whether to resurrect it for a Thursday re-vote as is, or amend changes, or even scrap this bill, and head for new options. Discussions are underway.

Like a spreading contagion, the current Wall Street crisis has spread into Asian and European stock markets. Waves of financial uncertainty are circling the globe, affecting and re-affecting other markets in a chain reaction.

Think $4 for a gallon of gas is high? America's record-high prices at the pump are a mere fraction of the true cost of oil, when we figure in the lost jobs, higher taxes, terrorism threats, unnecessary wars, death and health problems caused by our

Supposedly there is low unemployment in the US right now. But it appears there is one group whose skills and experience are flooding the market with no takers: educated white-collar employees and other skilled workers.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The twenty-six year-old daughter of a rags-to-riches property developer is China's wealthiest person, with a $16 billion ( 7.8 billion pound) fortune, Forbes magazine said on Monday.