ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Talk about having little time to adjust.

WASHINGTON -- Broadcasts, blogs and blast e-mails are among the ways the NCUA and the major trade associations have been getting out the word about the increased levels of share insurance.

WASHINGTON -- Whether the change involves "major surgery" as House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank promises or the political equivalent of a tummy tuck, the way the government regulates financial services probably won't be the same after Congress and the next president are finished.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration announced today it will buy $250 billion worth of shares in the nation's leading bank companies.

WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is scheduled to discuss the government's plans to buy shares in key banks during a meeting this afternoon with the CEOs of the nation's top commercial and investment banks.

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to increase liquidity, and an action that the United States may emulate later this week, the British government today bought $63 billion worth of shares in the country's largest banks.

WASHINGTON -- Declines in both imports and exports caused a drop in the nation's trade deficit in August, the Commerce Department reported today.

WASHINGTON -- Declines in both imports and exports caused a drop in the nation's trade deficit in August, the Commerce Department reported today.