Following Pastor Jeremiah Wright's media tour over the past few days explaining his controversial statements at the pulpit, Senator Barack Obama is more aggressively distancing himself from his embattled pastor, saying he "might not know him as well as I thought."

Here's a potential body blow to our reliance on oil that comes from an unlikely place: Two California entrepreneurs are developing a machine for home use that allows you to create ethanol from sugar for as little as a dollar a gallon.

So, hey, the Fed is meeting again, and the expectation is that they will decrease the key interest rate one more time by .25 percent. That will bring it down to 2 percent. If you need to refinance stuff and your credit score is like 1100, now is the time!