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While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and some lawmakers want to give the Federal Reserve broader powers to head off financial disasters, the Fed's easy-money policies earlier this decade and years of homeownership incentives dangled by the White House and Congress helped set the stage for today's housing and credit crises.

Ugh . . . . Another lousy week for tech stocks. For the whole stock market, for that matter. But technology stocks bore the brunt of it.

Let's look at some of the bigger players. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Company One-Week Return