She calls herself a TARP wife, and offers a rare glimpse of what it’s like to be married to a Wall Street executive and former Master of the Universe who took billions in taxpayer dollars to bail out his company.

Economist Paul Krugman, who describes John Maynard Keynes as his “economic idol,” may be the right man at the right time. But supporters of Barack Obama certainly hope not.

Call it the Midas touch: Casino magnate Richard Fields just flipped his three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath condo at 15 Central Park West for $27 million - twice what he paid for it a mere six months ago.

James H. Lambright, head of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., has been tapped for a top job overseeing the $700-billion financial bailout.

Analysts at Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings had doubts about many of the mortgage-backed securities they rated, but gave them a thumbs-up because it was so lucrative to do so, according to documents released by a U.S. House panel.

Using expert consultants is common in business and government. SEC Inspector General David Kotz used one in his report that slams the agency for missing numerous red flags that foreshadowed the collapse of Bear Stearns.

The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at 2 percent today, with Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher providing the lone dissenting vote among the nine members of the Federal Open Market Committee. Fisher, fearing inflation, wanted to raise rates.

Ross Perot missed his calling. Instead of a billionaire entrepreneur, he should have been a teacher.

Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Fed’s top anti-inflation hawk, cautioned again that the central bank must be wary of “stirring the embers of inflation.”

Veteran politicians and former government staffers have been lobbying Washington for clients seeking tax cuts as part of the economic stimulus package.

During recent weeks, a coalition of hotel, financial services, energy companies and manufacturers pressed lawmakers to include in the package a reduction in the capital gains tax rate.