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A few weeks ago, I had a horrifying PC moment. For the first time in twelve years of Internet surfing, a terrible virus oddly named Total Security disabled my computer. No programs would open

The not-so-reputable mortgage broker thought he had a sympathetic listener on the other end of the phone. Actually, my skin was crawling as he blathered on about his solution to our current real estate woes: “The feds have to lay off with all these rules against lenders and the banks have to start taking on risky loans again–otherwise, we can’t pump up the numbers of buyers qualifying for mortgages. If buyers can’t buy, the real estate market stays in a sinkhole.

On the 10th anniversary of Congress voting to repeal the law that had long separated Main Street commercial banking from Wall Street investment banking, current members of the body are talking about ways to potentially bring it back. A return to the Depression-era law — known as Glass-Steagall — is now being seriously discussed. Some leading economists and financial thinkers point to its repeal as a precipitator of the current crisis, because it enabled banks to become “too big to fail.” Consider some of the action on Capitol Hill: * Rep.