NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. home prices sank nearly 14 percent last year and show few signs of stabilizing

via U.S. home prices sank 13.8 percent in 2008: IAS index | Economy | Reuters .

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pledged government financing for as much as $2 trillion of efforts to spur new lending and address banks’ toxic assets, seeking to end the credit crunch  hobbling the economy.via Bloomberg.com: U.S..

by Eric Umansky, ProPublica 

Today, we’re launching ShovelWatch.org,the latest step in our joint project to track the stimulus with New York’s WNYC Radio and public radio show “The Takeaway.” WithShovelWatch.org you’ll be able to see all the stories we and our partners have done on the largest domestic spending bill in U.S. history. We’re also highlighting the best reporting from around the Web on the stimulus. (And yes, that’s just a start. We will also be recruiting you–our readers–to help the track the bill and its effects.)

Want to know more?  Here’s our press release.

Introducing ShovelWatch.org: Tracking the Stimulus From Bills to Building – ProPublica.

This was posted on the propublica site yesterday just in time for the new “stimulus accountability and transparency” we heard about this morning—>  financialstability.gov/