| September 2 |
- Sarah Palin: No fan of John Maynard Keynes
- Palinomics 101: What does the V.P. nominee's membership in the Alaskan Independence Party tell us about her economic philosophy?
- Sarah Palin: The Hugo Chavez of Alaska
- The governor may be pro-drilling, but she's no Big Oil puppet.
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| September 3 |
- John Kerry: The road bike warrior
- "John Kerry descended like he stole the friggin' bike from the GOP."
- Bankrupt Americans and a busted hedge fund
- Reported missing at the Republican National Convention: References to the state of the U.S. economy
- How J.P. Morgan escaped the squeeze
- Was CEO Jamie Dimon a brilliant risk manager, or just not as dumb and greedy as everyone else on Wall Street?
- The GOP gives up an inch on climate change
- The 2008 Party Platform concedes humans could be messing up the weather. But the cost of fixing the mess won't be cheap. Just ask the Dutch
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| September 4 |
- Sarah Palin's stiletto
- Put away the Quayle and Eagleton comparisons. Palin's for real, and on the key issue of energy policy, she has to be reckoned with
- Organic farmers feel the pain
- When the going gets tough, the tough... stop buying organic food
- The economics of Alaskan secession
- The state has oil, natural gas and lots of armed libertarians. Independence is a no-brainer!
- Wall Street gets the jitters, again
- A bond manager warns of a "tsunami"; a Fed official labels future economic health "subpar." What do Republicans have to say? Nothing, again
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| September 5 |
- Unemployment: 6.1 percent and rising
- John McCain promised wage insurance for out-of-luck Americans Thursday night. No time like the present!
- A condom ringtone to die for
- It was the best of all prophylactic public service campaigns. It was the worst of all prophylactic public service campaigns
- LPGA to Korean golfers: Never mind!
- Let a thousand languages flourish on the green -- The Ladies' Tour backs off its requirement for English proficiency
- A Chinese conspiracy theory
- Some Chinese think the U.S. purposely duped China into buying bad Treasury bonds. But that's giving the U.S. too much credit
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| September 8 |
- The Korean golf money train
- The LPGA's Korean golfers might not speak the best English, but broadcast rights to televise their exploits are a gold mine
- The truth about Fannie and Freddie
- With or without these misbegotten public/private entities, the government still would have had no choice but to bail out the housing market.
- Sarah Palin explains Fannie and Freddie
- Too "expensive to the taxpayers," says the governor. Does that mean she opposes the bailout?
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| September 9 |
- Hurricane Ike and Ronald Reagan
- A future of ever-stormier weather will make life tough for Gulf offshore oil drillers. Go ahead, blame the Gipper.
- Brother, can you spare $50 billion?
- The auto industry asks Washington for a little help. But don't call it a bailout!
- Thou shalt not subprime
- Fall on your knees! Faith-based investors claim they saw the mortgage meltdown coming, 15 years ago.
- The bicycle theory of the Tao
- On the ninth day of the ninth month, a little ancient philosophy for trade liberalization negotiators to ponder
- Have curry spices, will travel
- Aficionados of Indian cuisine in the United Kingdom can relax -- the government is heeding the belly growls of the people
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| September 10 |
- A blackout for sun power
- Drowning in renewables? Solar power stocks get hammered on oversupply concerns
- The White House's Fannie and Freddie "one-finger-salute"
- A former Republican lawmaker says the White House and Greenspan sabotaged legislation aimed at fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- The latest word on those nefarious oil speculators
- Since the middle of July, commodity index investors have been dumping their holdings. Guess what happened to the price of oil since then?
- Sex, drugs, corruption and oil
- It's a Bush administration bonanza -- "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" at the Department of Interior
- A life well spent, reviewing Neal Stephenson
- "Anathem" does not disappoint. Unless you have a problem with philosophy
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| September 11 |
- My bank is failing and I don't care
- Washington Mutual is in a world of hurt. So what?
- Snorting speed off of toaster ovens
- The Department of Interior ethics scandal is where offshore drilling meets the U.S. government. Talk about your wild parties!
- How to help Yacouba Sawadogo
- The Burkina Faso farmer is in danger of losing his land. A Salon reader figured out a way to lend a hand
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| September 12 |
- Rest of world to Wall Street: Not this time
- Sovereign wealth funds are no longer eager to help American financial institutions stay afloat
- My bank is now junk. Yay for me
- Washington Mutual's travails continue. But it's people like me, the lowly depositor, who keep the fires burning
- The sexual politics of offshore drilling
- Some Democrats argue that the sex-drugs-and-oil scandal is reason enough to prohibit offshore drilling. Not exactly
- In the online eye of Hurricane Ike
- New frontiers in journalism: As a deadly storm surge threatens Galveston, the Houston Chronicle's "SciGuy" tells it like it is, in a real-time online chat
- Sex, drugs, oil, and an ethics award
- Earlier this week, the Department of Interior received a commendation for promoting a "stronger ethical culture"
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| September 15 |
- Wall Street's nightmare goes nuclear
- Systemic meltdown? You're looking at it. Lehman declares bankruptcy, Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch, and everyone else wonders, what next?
- Dow down 300 in early trading
- A bad start to a Monday -- investors do not like the morning headlines.
- John McCain: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong"
- What country is the Republican presidential candidate referring to? Because it can't be the United States.
- The Wall Street meltdown -- and you
- Lehman, AIG, WaMu, Merrill Lynch -- the fur is flying in financial markets. What does it mean for you and me?
- Wall Street's very bad day
- The Dow drops 500 points -- and marks the beginning of a new stage in the presidential campaign. Palin who?
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| September 16 |
- Who deserves a taxpayer bailout?
- Why Bear Stearns and Fannie/Freddie, but not Lehman? And what about the monster in the closet, AIG?
- Obama comes out swinging
- "What we've seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed"
- How is McCain connected to the almost bankrupt AIG?
- Follow the trail between the ailing giant insurance company and McCain advisor Phil Gramm
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| September 17 |
- The United States of Wall Street
- Can the American taxpayer afford the socialist makeover of the U.S. economy?
- "You've Got the Fed"
- Feeling oppressed by relentlessly bleak financial news? YouTube parody to the rescue!
- What to do about WaMu?
- Stocks get hammered again, and the market wonders, is the big West Coast bank the next to go?
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| September 18 |
- Glass-Steagal and the fall of the modern investment bank
- Deregulation allowed commercial banks to invade Goldman Sachs' playground. Did that spell doom for the likes of Merrill Lynch and Lehman?
- The end of history, or the beginning?
- A reflection on current affairs
- A book-keeping note
- About comments, and Sawadogo
- McCain to SEC chair Cox: "Off with your head!"
- The Republican presidential candidate reinvents himself as a stern regulator. That's definitely a "change."
- McCain: How not to explain a meltdown
- In a speech on "financial reform," the candidate points the finger at the wrong target.
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| September 19 |
- Fear and loathing on Wall Street and the campaign trail
- Economic chaos, internecine warfare in the GOP, and the bailout to end all bailouts? Just another day.
- Ten days that shook Wall Street
- Two economics professors provide a useful explanatory lecture
- What's happening to the real economy?
- While Wall Street goes for a roller-coaster ride, unemployment claims jump and household net worth declines
- McCain doubles down on Fannie and Freddie
- The rest of the country is moving on to bigger problems -- but for McCain, "Frannie" is still the root of all evil
- We are all radical regulators, now
- George Bush, Henry Paulson and Barack Obama support a rescue plan for Wall Street. But John McCain gets the Big Government grand prize.
- A history lesson from the Great Depression
- The struggle between the Rockefeller and Morgan families over banking laws in the 1930s offers a useful moral: Sometimes conspiracy theory is true.
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| September 22 |
- First reactions to the Paulson plan: Boo!
- Nobody's happy with a no-strings-attached bailout. Taxpayers should not end up being the only ones to pay for Wall Street's mistakes.
- Not so fast, Secretary Paulson!
- The future of capitalism as we know it will be decided this week. Now is the time for a Democratic Congress to show its mettle.
- Paulson plan euphoria fades: Dow down 373
- Surging oil prices, bailout anxiety, the demise of the modern investment bank... It's a wonder the Dow didn't fall even further
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| September 23 |
- The great bailout horse-trading game
- Will help for homeowners get plugged into Paulson's Wall Street rescue plan? It's only fair.
- How to give struggling homeowners a break
- Mortgage lenders don't want bankruptcy judges to have the power to rework contracts. But what if the federal government is the lender?
- A bailout and a tax cut in every corporate pot
- The Tax Foundation says the U.S. must cut the corporate income tax rate to make American companies more globally competitive. Nice timing!
- Senators go on the bailout warpath
- At a historic Senate hearing, Democrats and Republicans rip into the Paulson plan. But Ben Bernanke remains firm: Don't punish the bad guys.
- Jon Tester asks a good question
- The senator from Montana wonders: Why didn't you warn us a little earlier about the possibility of complete financial Armageddon?
- How much is toxic debt worth?
- Bernanke says the Paulson plan won't require participants to sell at "fire-sale" prices. So what do taxpayers get in return, again?
- The ghost of Phil Gramm
- The subject of credit default swaps pops up at the Paulson plan Senate hearing. Guess what -- they are not regulated, at all, and on purpose
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| September 24 |
- Wall Street on trial
- Americans are angry, but all throughout a long day Bernanke and Paulson refused to make concessions to their rage. Here's why.
- Warren Buffett to the rescue?
- A $5 billion stake in Goldman Sachs cheers investors. But his comments about "an economic Pearl Harbor" tell us what he really thinks
- Why the threat of systemic meltdown is real
- Beware the ominous portents of the "TED spread." When credit markets freeze up, everyone suffers.
- Who do you trust to pick the next Treasury Secretary?
- Taking over the reins from Hank Paulson isn't going to be easy. But this is one job where a surprise would be bad news
- George Bush's insurmountable challenge
- The president has to explain to a country that distrusts him why they should support the greatest bailout of Wall Street fat cats, ever.
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| September 25 |
- George Bush's scary story
- "Our economy is in serious danger," the president told Americans. Be very, very afraid.
- What's happening outside of Wall Street?
- More bad news for McCain: The fundamentals of the economy get weaker
- Inching toward a bailout deal
- The latest word on the Paulson plan from Washington is optimistic, unless your name happens to be John McCain.
- What we know (and don't know) about the bailout deal
- Details are scarce, but one thing's for certain. Lenders won't allow Congress to change how bankruptcy law deals with mortgages. And that's an outrage.
- The conservative bailout solution
- The answer to Wall Street problems? Less taxes and regulation! Did McCain really suggest that?
- My bank is gone. Long live the new bank
- J.P. Morgan agrees to buy Washington Mutual. I have been consolidated
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| September 26 |
- President Bailout
- With financial markets running scared, the president tells the country that a rescue package will be passed. But is his own party listening?
- A strange calm comes over Wall Street
- Credit markets loosen up while the Dow demonstrates great fortitude. Time to put on the party hats?
- A cry of rage from Wall Street
- Betrayed by the GOP, a "rock-ribbed" Republican money manager turns his back on his party; Plus, can we blame Newt Gingrich?
- While politicians dither, another bank teeters
- A bailout deal this weekend? A vote next Wednesday? Meanwhile, Wachovia looks for a buyer
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| September 27 |
- No matter the question, the answer is offshore drilling
- McCain's gonna ride the offshore horse until it collapses under him.
- McCain: Sure, I'll vote for the bailout
- And I'll cut business taxes at the same time!
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| September 28 |
- The New York Times smacks McCain again, hard
- Another day, another broadside: The Senator from Arizona is "one of the founding fathers of Indian gaming"
- A bailout deal for everyone?
- Congress says it has a deal with a little bit of everything mixed in. New York markets breathe a sigh of relief. And Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo ...
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| September 29 |
- Why the bailout is not like the Iraq war
- For starters, we know where the weapons of mass destruction are located
- A bailout bill that pleases no one
- Hours away from passing a landmark bill, Congressional representatives dither and the stock market tanks
- An unhappy House, divided
- "As unappealing to those of us who will vote for it as it is to those who will vote against it."
- House rebellion: The bailout bill fails
- Democrats and Republicans say no. The Dow plummets.
- Burn, baby, burn! Dow down 777
- The House gave capitalism as we know it the bum's rush. But is Congress ready for what comes next?
- Is the the credit crunch just an accounting issue?
- House Republicans are blaming the "mark-to-market" rule for our economic ills. Did they know the bailout bill allows the SEC to suspend the practice?
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| September 30 |
- Black bailout Monday
- How many days of market carnage will it take before Congress changes its mind?
- Bailout or no bailout, taxpayers will pay
- President Bush makes another pitch for the Paulson plan, but is anyone listening. Meanwhile, the credit crunch gets worse
- World to U.S.: You suck
- Monday's bad bailout reality TV from Washington has the rest of the world screaming en masse: Get your act together!
- Bailout remorse
- A case of Wall Street whiplash. The Dow rebounds, as Congress hints of a change of heart
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