RealClearMarkets Week of September 22, 2008 Archives

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Monday, September 22
Playing Depression-Era Monopoly
Lawrence Lindsey Weekly Standard
We've Shunned Free-Market Capitalism
Irwin Stelzer New Republic
Bank Rescue a Political, Bureaucratic Nightmare
John Berry Bloomberg
The Race to Rescue Wall Street
T. Francis & J. Sasseen Business Week
Short Sellers Keep Markets Honest
James Chanos Wall Street Journal
During Crisis, U.S. Still Dominates
Rosemary Righter Times of London
U.S. Gov't Default No Longer Unthinkable
Liam Halligan Daily Telegraph
The Shadow Banking System Is Unraveling
Nouriel Roubini FT
California's Hedge Fund King Supports Higher Taxes
Lashinsky Fortune
Higher Taxes Would Bring Recession
Louis Woodhill RealClearMarkets
$700B Plan Should Be Called 'Cash for Trash'
Paul Krugman NY Times
Rough Week, But America's Era Goes On
Niall Ferguson Washington Post


Tuesday, September 23
A Bailout Above the Law
Andrew Ross Sorkin New York Times
Rescue Plan Sows Seeds of Weak Capitalism
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
Dollar Will Be a Casualty of Bailout
Edmund Conway Daily Telegraph
What We Know About the Paulson Plan
Liz Moyer Forbes
Bailouts, and Avoiding Financial Suicide
James DeLong TCS Daily
What Washington Doesn't Get About the Crisis
Roger Lowenstein TNR
A Hedge Fund Like No Other
S. Johnson & J. Kwak Washington Post
'Wall Street' No Longer Exists
Alan Reynolds Wall Street Journal
Do Not Exaggerate Investment Banking's Death
Philip Augur FT
A Guide to Fixing Finance
Robert Litan Brookings Institution
Time to Ease Up, John and Barack
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
How to Avoid a New RTC
Brian Wesbury FT Portfolios


Wednesday, September 24
How Main Street Will Profit from Bailout
William Gross Washington Post
Mortgage Mess Began on Main Street
Steven Malanga RealClearMarkets
Good Intentions Paved Road to Subprime Meltdown
Terry Jones IBD
Paulson's Plan: Trust But Verify
J. Galbraith & W. Black The Nation
'Moral Hazard' Preening Is Hazardous
David Wighton Times of London
Give Paulson a Clean Bill
Larry Kudlow RealClearPolitics
Paulson Should Own Up to His Meltdown
John Berlau American Spectator
Let's Get the Bank Rescue Right
Hubbard Scott & Zingales Wall St. Journal
Stop Blaming the Short Sellers
Mark Gimein The Big Money
The Buck Stopped in 1971
James Grant New York Times
The Banking Crisis Through the Eyes of Amity Shlaes
Interview RCM
Was It Greed, or Incentives Behind Meltdown?
Richard Epstein Forbes


Thursday, September 25
Paulson's Plan Will Make Money for Taxpayers
Andy Kessler WSJ
Paulson Can't Be Given a Blank Check
George Soros Financial Times
Government Could Come Out Ahead
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Could Buffett Negotiate a Better Deal?
David Leonhardt New York Times
Let's Get the Same Deal Buffett Got
William Greider The Nation
For the Rescue to Work, It Must Be Clean
Editorial Investor's Bus. Daily
Save the World? Hank Has No Clue
Anatole Kaletsky Times of London
Exactly How Serious Is the Crisis?
Terence Corcoran National Post
Well, Is This a Crisis, Mr. Secretary?
Editorial New York Sun
GS, Morgan Now 'Too Big To Fail'
Amar Bhide Forbes
The SEC Wants to Ban Reality
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Questioning King Henry's Bailout Plan
John Avlon City Journal


Friday, September 26
Mark-to-Market Isn't to Blame
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
Bankruptcy, and 'Counterparty' Myths
Steve Selinger RealClearMarkets
A Pledge to Help That Hurts
Floyd Norris New York Times
What Do They Mean By the Credit Crisis?
Editorial New York Sun
Main Street Needs the Treasury Plan
Kenneth Lewis Wall Street Journal
Bailout? Just Do Nothing
Joel Stein Los Angeles Times
Fannie & Freddie: Equal Opportunity Corrupters
David Boaz Spectator
Returning Taxpayer Accountability
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
How to Spend That $700 Billion
Sebastian Mallaby Washington Post
New Capitalism Will Never Be the Same
Irwin Stelzer Weekly Standard
Warren Buffett Is No Clark Kent
Tracy Corrigan Daily Telegraph
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Aren't Dead Yet
Roy Smith Bloomberg
Saturday, September 27
Fixing the Paulson Plan
Diamond Kaplan Kashyap Rajan & Thaler WSJ
A Better Way To Aid Banks
William Isaac Washington Post
The Case for the Bailout Hasn't Been Made
Bruce Bartlett New York Post
Markets Canâ??t Wait for Congress to Act
Joe Nocera New York Times
Bailout May Be Granddaddy of All Carry Trades
John Berry Bloomberg
Who's Afraid of a Big, Bad Bailout?
John Mauldin Frontline Thoughts
Deleveraging: A Fate Worse Than Debt
The Economist
The Paulson-Cantor Plan Is a Win-Win
Larry Kudlow RealClearMarkets
In Praise of Free Markets
Editorial Financial Times
American Needs a New New Deal
K. vanden Huevel & E. Schlosser WSJ
Lehman's ex-CFO Callan: 'I Was Lucky To Get Out'
Katie Benner Fortune
The Good and Bad News of WaMu's Demise
Lawrence White Forbes
Monday, September 29
A Crisis Resists the Usual Remedies
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
In Times of Crisis, Trust Capitalism
Joseph Calhoun RealClearMarkets
Don't Call It a Bailout. Or a Depression
Irwin Kellner MarketWatch
As Storm Rages, Only Gov't Can Save Us
Gerard Baker Times of London
Paulson Plan Is a Rescue of Main Street
Editorial Wall Street Journal
Rescue Package Is a Pig, Even With Lipstick
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
The Bailout Plan Is a Wealth Transfer
Editorial New York Sun
Rescue Might Actually Worsen Things
John Berlau American Spectator
Daring To Say Loans Made No Sense
David Carr New York Times
What's Next, A Ban On Stock Sales?
Bill Fleckenstein MSN Money
Taxpayers Can Benefit From a Bailout
Lawrence Summers Fncl. Times
The Two Biggest Things We Can Do
Steve Forbes Forbes


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