RealClearMarkets Week of September 29, 2008 Archives

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Monday, September 29

House Rejects Bailout Proposal 228-205

C. Hulse & D. Herszenhorn NYT

What Happens If/When The Bailout Gets Done?

Randall Forsyth Barron's

Gov't Hand in the Economy Is as Old as the Republic

Robert Shiller WaPo

Main Street Turns Against Wall Street

Nina Easton Fortune

You Must Be Able To Read a Balance Sheet

J. Hussman Hussman Funds

Shorting Financial Stocks Should Resume

Arturo Bris Wall Street Journal

Magic Ring To Save Us: Accounting Overhaul

Kevin Hassett Bloomberg

How To Estimate Value of U.S. Mortgage Assets

Daniel Gros VoxEU

Tuesday, September 30

Congress Decides It Is Worth Risking Depression

Martin Wolf Fncl Times

Can Bush Get His Bailout Done?

Brian Wingfield & Joshua Zumbrun Forbes

Bankruptcy, Not Bailout, Is The Right Answer

Jeffrey Miron CNN

Will The Bailout Come Soon Enough?

James Galbraith American Prospect

Is the CDS Market the Next Disaster?

N. Archaver & K. Benner Fortune

Do Not Write Off New York & London

Michael Skapinker Financial Times

Bailout Vote Leaves Big Wall Street Names Hanging

D. Pauly Bloomberg

The Green Bubble Bursts

Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger LA Times

Wednesday, October 1

We Need to Recapitalize the Banks

Edmund Phelps Wall Street Journal

We Need To Turn Main Street Right-Side Up

Thomas Cooley Forbes

How Did Wall Street Get into This Mess?

Michael Flynn Reason

The Fatal Bankerâ??s Fall

John Gapper Financial Times

Ideology, Politics, Ignorance Derail Rescue Plan

John Berry Bloomberg

Congress Reads the Returns--Of Minus $1 Trillion

R. Forsyth Barron's

This Economy Does Not Compute

Mark Buchanan New York Times

Inequality & The Sergey Brin Effect

Arnold Kling & Nick Schulz American

Thursday, October 2

First, Let's Stabilize Home Prices

Glenn Hubbard and Chris Mayer WSJ

There Are No Silver Bullets Here

Steven Pearlstein Washington Post

Paulson Fashions 'Powell Doctrine' for Markets

Caroline Baum Bloomberg

Singing Those Bailout Blues

Joseph Stiglitz Project Syndicate

Hank Paulson's Leaky Bail-Out

Avinash Persaud The Guardian

Paulson Package: Not the End of Capitalism

Berglöf & Rosenthal VoxEU

Global Problems Require Global Cooperation

The Economist

How Much Is That Exotic Security Worth Exactly?

Knowledge@Wharton

Friday, October 3

Main Street's Complicity Fed Wall Street Scheme

Bethany McLean NYT

Why The Bailout May Not Be Enough

Colin Barr Fortune

Our Problems Run Deeper Than Wall St.

Martin Feldstein Proj. Syndicate

The Free Market Is Not Dead

Robert Bruner Forbes

How Financial Concussions Have Shaken Global Politics

P. Stephens FT

Goldman Is Getting Best of the Credit Crisis

David Weidner MarketWatch

April '04 Decision by the SEC Proved Fatal

Stephen Labaton NY Times

Don't Let Google Freeze the Airwaves

T. Hazlett & V. Smith Wall St. Jrnl

Monday, October 6

Chaotic Day Ends With Stocks Down 3.8%

Michael Grynbaum NY Times

It's Nonsense To Blame Crisis on Deregulation

Sebastian Mallaby WaPo

How Do We Get Credit Flowing Again?

Randall Forsyth Barron's

Markets Need More Than Random Acts of Congress

C. Baum Bloomberg

A Plan To Undo Bush-Era Follies

Joseph Stiglitz Vanity Fair

Not Everyone Should Own a Home

Janet Albrechtsen Wall Street Journal

Citigroup Wants Its Wachovia Bailout Deal

Colin Barr Fortune

Cut To 1%--Now!

Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein Forbes