The Virginia legislature says "no thanks" to federal stimulus money that would have helped some of the state's record number of unemployed. Also, gangs in the military have police worried. Plus, feeding the starving in Afghanistan and a new phenomenon of grocery auctions in the United States.

Las Vegas now has the dubious distinction of double digit unemployment and a huge number of home foreclosures as the economy goes bust.

In Canada, everyone is covered by medical insurance. But there are often long waits to see doctors or have surgery. Also, an agricultural town where workers who climbed the economic ladder out of the fields are suddenly finding themselves without jobs. And, a conversation on the Middle East with noted scholar Fouad Ajami.

From white tablecloth restaurants to ranches in the Midwest, the economic effect of the recession on the beef industry. Also, noted Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren.

The "Swedish Model" of nationalizing banks is seen as the next step if U.S. banks continue to falter. Also, the simplest explanation of the Obama Administration's banking bailout plan. And lobbyists are mad over new restrictions.