Anyone who has a hard time wading through the dense Fed-speak and high-finance talk now saturating the airwaves, the Internet and the nation's newspapers, but still wants to know what happened to

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve, with the backing of the Treasury, on Tuesday outlined an $800 billion lending facility to support the market for consumer debt securities.

You wouldn’t have thought that an ex-chairman of Goldman Sachs would be ordering what someone has called “the greatest nationalisation in the history of humanity”.

Ninety per cent of Americans have made changes in their daily lives to counter higher energy prices, according to an annual energy survey released today by RBC Capital Markets, one of North America's leading energy investment banks.

Where are we now in the credit crisis, and why isn’t the massive Fed and ECB weekly lending working to loosen interbank lending? Why is the credit crisis not really improving? Where is this going next? We describe what may happen next as Credit Crisis I