Silver bullet

Plus, what really scares the well-known horror fiction writer: "poverty, starvation, genocide, war, nuclear annihilation."

The news that didn't quite make the headlines. This week: Bullets for killing zombies, ads in public bathroom mirrors and Redbox buying Disney movies to rent out to customers.

After Ben Bernanke and company took fresh aim this week at that menacing beast called the economy, one financial expert told us the Fed's arsenal...