The Illinois senator last night placed his last seven years of tax records on his website.

He hinted that his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination may have something to hide for delaying the release of her joint tax records with her husband Bill.

Or, if you’re literary and like readin’ words, the New York Times has a nice write up.

Raise your hand if you don’t quite understand this whole
financial crisis.

It has been going on for seven months now, and many people probably feel as if they should understand it. But they don’t, not really. The part about the housing crash seems simple enough. With banks whispering sweet encouragement, people bought homes they couldn’t afford, and now they are falling behind on their mortgages.

But the overwhelming majority of homeowners are doing just fine. So how is it that a mess concentrated in one part of the mortgage business — subprime loans — has frozen the credit markets, sent stock
markets gyrating, caused the collapse of Bear Stearns, left the economy on the brink of the worst recession in a generation and forced the Federal Reserve to take its boldest action since the Depression?

The new all-share offer, coupled with surprisingly strong home sales data, helped spark a broad market rally in the US when investors hoped the worst fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis might be at an end. All three big US stock market indices were up at least 2 per cent in midday trade.

The five-fold increase in the offer for Bear represents a remarkable turnround for JPMorgan executives. Late last week they suggested privately that they had no plans to increase their bid, which they said represented the best possible outcome for Bear. They said then that if the offer failed they would let Bear shareholders fend for themselves in bankruptcy court.