What I'm Reading Today:

• Stimulus Act Eases Paying for College in 2009/2010 - The chart above indicates the applicable Code section and the categories of expenses that qualify for each program.
  
• A Recession in Dog Years by Daniel Gross on Slate. "According to Nishimura's schema, in less than two and a half years, the United States has experienced as much trauma and recovery as Japan did in about 12 years. All of which means that if the dog-years analogy continues, things could start looking up by early next year. But we shouldn't get too far ahead ourselves. There are other lessons to be learned from Japan's experience of starts and stops. "We should be careful not to be very optimistic," Nishimura concluded. 'That's my advice to myself.'"