From Dina ElBoghdady at The Washington Post yesterday and today.  News about the critical FHA program this week will be that it likely needs additional funds from congress. The controversy is likely to have a flavor of the bail-out debate infused with how important the FHA loan program is to the recovery of the housing sector. From the articles:

In the 1990's there was a lot of discussion about "The Third Way" -- something "between" the private and public sectors. I had an opportunity to study the thinking at the time both in undergraduate and graduate school with the preeminent thought-leaders at that time. Truly I now believe that idea was merely an attempt to appease the prevailing dogmatic anti-regulation thinking of the prior 25 years, before Reagan's "government IS the problem" mantra.