holes

The first rule of holes is this: If you're in one, stop digging. New government estimates released last week show that the federal government will be in a big hole in fiscal 2009: a $546 billion deficit.

They also help show how we got into this hole -- and the answer may surprise you.

The network’s decision sent people across the country to their computers to poke holes in NBC’s technological wall.

When big banks have multibillion-dollar holes on their balance sheets, they make harsh margin calls even to their healthier clients. Here's how one fund got crunched by the credit crisis.