Intel as SpongeBob Squarepants: The chipmaker reports what it modestly bills as its best quarter ever.

It may be a while before we get that update from Goldman Sachs on how the Securities and Exchange Commission was all wrong to sue over one of the Abacus CDOs.
Double-dip or not, a global slowdown seems to be at hand, euroskeptic Edward Hugh writes.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is suing some former IndyMac executives for lending money to homebuilders they should have known couldn’t pay them back.
Plus, monkey business in Afghanistan.