Thanksgiving Story Resonates in Post-Crisis Age: Caroline Baum It is the tradition of this column every year at this time to recount the story of Thanksgiving. This year, with capitalism under attack from all quarters, it’s more important than ever to revisit the history of the Pilgrims’ early years in America and appreciate the message.

Obama’s Trumped-Up Job Count Flunks Science Test: Caroline Baum At first it was just an unverifiable assertion. Now it turns out to have been a case of bureaucratic ineptitude and possible fraud. Transparency and accountability aren’t working out the way President Barack Obama had hoped.

Obama Bows to Japan’s Emperor, Snubs Adam Smith: Caroline Baum Every morning I’m confronted with more evidence that the world has gone mad.

Frank, Dodd Will Fix Banking Regulation But Good: Caroline Baum Members of Congress are plumping their feathers, holding press conferences and congratulating themselves for a job well done.

Boom or Bust Leaves Bankers With Bum Choices: Caroline Baum Imagine you are a central banker. You arrive at the office each morning and scan the daily financial pages and newswires. You read that markets -- stocks, junk bonds, gold, oil -- are positively giddy due to “all the liquidity sloshing around that has to go somewhere,” or something to that effect.

‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum Heresy, thy name is Christina Romer.

If Government Pays Us to Spend, Then Spend We Will: Caroline Baum The recession is over. Yea verily yea, as the knights of old might say with chalice raised.

Bible Teaches That Banks Can’t Serve Two Masters: Caroline Baum Taxpayers may despise Wall Street’s culture of greed, view bankers as amoral and abhor the idea of government bailouts. What they really can’t stand is watching the bailed-out banks throw their new-found wealth at their employees without getting a piece of the action.

Ayn Rand, Goddess of the Market, Led a Soap-Opera Life: Review The Panic of 2008 was bad for the economy, good for advocates of big government and great for Ayn Rand, philosopher, novelist and high priestess of individualism, who died in 1982.

Bernanke Frets Over Sherlock Holmes’s Next Stop: Caroline Baum Federal Reserve policy makers like to explain the world in terms of feedback loops, except those of their own making.