SUBPRIME SIX UPDATE: Questions for Kent Conrad.
Plus, more from Connecticut on Christopher Dodd: “This scandal has legs.” Again, it seems that local media are paying more attention to this story than the big national publications. Further proof: The ol’ Favor Game pops up in Congress. “So here’s a member of the Senate Finance Committee, who should have been helping draft rules against Countrywide’s fast-and-loose playing with ‘subprime’ home loans — behavior contributing to the housing-mortgage crisis — owing favors to the company’s boss.”