The White House on Friday renewed its push for a consumer financial protection agency with President Obama and a senior economic official warning Congress and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s biggest business lobby, not to get in the way. “…It has never been more important to have a watchdog function like the one we’ve proposed,” Obama said

Caterina Fake, who, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, founded Flickr, knows a thing or two about bliztkreig work schedules. But she points out that late nights are seldom very useful in the grand scheme of things.

“New all time highs.” How many things can you say that of? Stocks?

Where is the mortgage crisis wracking the most damage? These handy maps, courtesy of the New York Fed , track changes in mortgage delinquency rates by county.

In my last blog I took a lot of flack for citing a study showing a correlation between obesity and Coke or Pepsi consumption. At the risk of losing my last shred of credibility as someone able to critically interpret a research finding, here’s another study to chew on. And like the aged, marbled steaks at Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn or Jar in Los Angeles this is one you can really sink your teeth into.

Got a gripe with Bank of America? Put it on YouTube. Ben Frasier of Douglas, Ore.

How much money do you make?  How much debt do you have?  How much money do you spend each month?  How much money do you have saved?  How do you feel about money in general and yourself in terms of your financial situation? These questions, and others like them, are about as personal and intimate as almost any questions we can ask ourselves and each other.  Money is one of the most emotionally charged issues in our lives, especially these days. Because of our feelings of shame, guilt, confusion, judgment, fear, and more about money – we often don’t ask or answer these questions in an honest way.  Our inability or lack of comfort with this type of authentic discussion about money is one of the biggest reasons money continues to be such an area of stress, struggle, and confusion for so many of us. I’ve struggled with money for much of my life – both not having money (growing up poor) and also not really understanding how it works, how to plan/spend/save in a conscious way, or how to attract it into my life.  Over the past few years as I’ve begun to learn a little bit about money and also manifest a bit more of it in my life, my feelings have not really changed all that much.  For example, instead of feeling ashamed of not having much money, I’ve simply shifted to feeling ashamed of not saving better or spending more wisely (and then assuming something was really wrong with me because even with more money coming in, we didn’t seem to be making that much financial progress).