Apparently the words of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke carry a little more weight with Wall Street these days than those of the Commander in Chief.

$787 billion is a nearly unfathomable number. What does it really mean and where it all that money going?

Maybe it was the stern talking to they took from Congress this past week that put the big banks into a charitable mood. J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America have all agreed to freeze foreclosures while the Obama administration works out plans to help bolster the floundering housing market.

The right way to spend the $700B stimulus money is to let the US citizens do it.

Someone once said: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." Where are we then?

Treasury Secretary was expected in his speech this week to give the particulars about how the Obama administration will spend the rest of the money from the bailout. But it seems lawmakers and investors walked away unsure of how exactly Geithner plans to stabilize the shaky banking industry.

The government of Japan is quite different from what we are used to in the United States, or in other countries.

This question is one that rests on the minds of nearly every American in the United States. The security of our southern borders has been the focus of so many people that the remaining borders are often left to no thought at all.

The TARP is the $700 billion bill passed by Congress, which was touted last fall as much needed medicine for the ailing economy. $295 billion in TARP money has been invested in 355 American corporations. What is less clear is exactly what effect the nearly $350 billion in bailout funds has had on the economy.