How strange is the current economic crisis? The Wall Street Journal is offering sound advice to average Americans besieged by worries about foreclosure instead of helping banks refine their foreclosure schemes.

A big report is expected this morning from realtors about home sales, and as the AP says:

James R. Hagerty's Saturday "Tip of the Week," "Scams Target New Local Aid," is a sort of a caveat debtor. It even argues that the federal government is the solution to people's problems. Weird for a paper that targets readers who have money, but here's an excerpt:

Now, the problem of another wave of urban and suburban blight from those foreclosed homes (like the one that has Florida officials flummoxed)? Let your children and grandchildren deal with that when they grow up.