| October 1 |
- Cheap latte drinkers feel the pain
- The credit crunch arrives at McDonald's. See, I told you the apocalypse was coming!
- Everybody gets a bailout!
- The Senate cooks up a package to rescue banks. Advocates for wind and solar power, parents and even therapists all have reason to cheer
- Bipartisan bailout folly
- Democrats and Republicans are blaming accountants for Wall Street's woes. They are wrong.
- "A tourniquet for a hemorrhaging economy"
- As the credit squeeze tightens around Main Street, the Senate prepares to vote on its version of the bailout bill.
- The specter of bailout-ism is haunting the Senate
- Is the Paulson plan a slippery slope to socialism? What does a real socialist think?
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| October 2 |
- The Senate votes for the bailout
- By a 74-25 vote the Senate says yes to a $700 billion rescue plan for Wall Street.
- Byron Dorgan's warning about risk
- Ten years ago, the senator from North Dakota warned against repealing Glass-Steagall. His premonition came true.
- The big bailout squeeze
- Another bad day for the economy, as unemployment jumps and credit gets tighter. Is a bad fix better than no fix at all?
- Bushonomics, revisited
- A quick review of the economic legacy of the man the New Yorker calls the worst president since Reconstruction.
- What's so wrong about mass hara-kiri?
- A reader makes a sharp observation. Plus: Joe Stiglitz doesn't like the bailout
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| October 3 |
- A debate question on jobs and the campaign
- More bad news on the unemployment front: Is government part of the problem, or the solution?
- Credit crisis, California-style
- Annals of the financial panic of 2008: Schwarzenegger warns Paulson that the state may soon need an emergency $7 billion loan
- McCain was right: Fire Chris Cox!
- And Henry Paulson too, while we're at it. They made this mess, and they should pay for it. The New York Times has the evidence
- Message from the House: "You better pray"
- House Majority Leader John Boehner says no matter how the bailout vote goes, we're going to need God's help
- The House votes for a bailout
- Kicking and screaming, complaining all the way, the ayes have it
- The end of the Reagan revolution
- The vote to bail out Wall Street marks the demise of deregulation's stranglehold over the American economy
- What would Jesus do, about the bailout?
- A Christian news organization reports about the danger that illegal immigrants might get mortgage relief from the Paulson plan
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| October 6 |
- Global economy panic attack; Dow drops 500
- Bailout or no bailout, the U.S. stock market can't escape the economic pain sweeping the rest of the world
- Wall Street shudders, again
- What bailout? The Dow drops 740 as a financial panic sweeps the world.
- A wild day on Wall Street
- While stock prices gyrate, Lehman's Richard Fuld tells Congress no one expected housing prices to fall so fast and so far. Oh really?
- Mr. Megabank endorses Obama
- Hugh McColl, the man who turned Charlotte, N.C., into a financial powerhouse, says the Democrat is the man for an economy in chaos.
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| October 7 |
- Another day, another radical Fed plan
- The bailout is so last week -- Bernanke and friends are plotting a new dramatic government "rescue" attempt
- Another step toward nationalizing the finance sector
- Reactions to the Fed's plan to lend directly to businesses. Plus: Rachel Maddow interviews Paul Krugman.
- Krugman: "We are all Brazilians now"
- Balance sheet contagion rules the global economy. "Interdependence" is becoming a dirty word.
- Prelude to the debate: Dow falls 508
- Character assassination may lose its appeal after two very bad days for Wall Street and Main Street.
- A Fannie Freddie debate primer
- Here's what you need to know when John McCain starts talking about the mortgage mess
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| October 8 |
- Can a global rate cut stop the bleeding?
- After a night of market carnage in Asia, interest rate cuts are the new world order of the day. But so far, investors are unimpressed
- The fatal flaw in McCain's mortgage plan
- Untangling the mess created by mortgage-backed securities and their derivatives will be complicated and very, very expensive.
- McCain's plan to overpay mortgage lenders
- Let taxpayers take the hit, while lenders get a big break
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| October 9 |
- Return of the Long Depression
- Risky mortgages, a rising new industrial power across the ocean, and banks unwilling to lend to each other. In 1873.
- Laissez-faire: Rest in peace
- Oh what the heck: Let's just nationalize the banks and get it over with. Sure, says the Treasury.
- Dow disaster -- down nearly 700 points
- Panic rules: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes under 8,600.
- Coping with a crazy-making economy
- Crashing stock markets and imploding banks aren't so great for the mental digestion. But we'll get through it.
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| October 10 |
- The sun never sets on a global panic
- Asian and European markets follow New York's stumbling footsteps. Can the world leaders now meeting in Washington make a difference?
- Can you hear the sound of the economy stopping?
- Grain shipments are stranded in port as international trade gets a credit check.
- Wall Street's crazy day
- Friday's stock market zigs and zags were a Rorschach blot for how investors see the economy. Despair, joy, gloom, euphoria. Can we go home now?
- The new improved Paulson plan
- The U.S. government will become the investor of last resort. Get ready, America: You're about to own Wall Street
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| October 13 |
- A Nobel Prize for Paul Krugman
- The Al Gore of partisan economics? Pshaw. He deserved this award, whether or not he was right about Republican economics.
- Wall Street: Three cheers for socialism
- Driven to ecstasy by news of worldwide bank nationalizations, the investor class celebrates. The Dow surges.
- The Obama middle-class rescue plan
- While McCain dithers, Obama swoops in with a multi-pronged bailout for Main Street.
- Dow rises 936. Happy days are here again?
- Don't be fooled. Investors are delirious because there is a plan to fix the banking system. But nothing is fixed, yet
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| October 14 |
- Grover Norquist's bad stock market prediction
- Four years ago, the conservative predicted that America's embrace of stock ownership would increase Republican domination.
- McCain warns against "erratic" politicians
- The new all-about-the-economy McCain sounds a lot like a Democrat. Right down to the sound bite.
- Falling gas prices: Where's the outrage?
- It's October in an election year and the price of gasoline is dropping like a rock. Where have all the conspiracy theorists gone?
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| October 15 |
- Consumers vote with their wallets
- Retail spending takes a big hit. Also: Yet another way to compare today with the Great Depression
- Who will save the economy?
- Paulson hopes banks will lend their new billions. Democrats propose a $300 billion new deal. Voters get to add their 2 cents in 20 days.
- George Bush and his bank bailout
- Are the President and the Treasury Secretary on the same page?
- Debate prep: Dow falls a whopping 733 points
- Monday's rally is ancient history, as investors run for cover, again. Does anyone care about Bill Ayers?
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| October 16 |
- Death march of the hedge funds
- The rich are running scared, and dragging global markets down as they panic
- More stock market woe: Blame the hurricanes
- Industrial production goes off a cliff and the stock market follows. Monday's rally? Gone, baby, gone.
- China and the bailout: Happy to help
- The People's Republic will assist in the nationalization of the U.S. financial sector. Because the Chinese have no choice.
- Is Google recession proof?
- The global economy may be hurting, but so far, the pain hasn't prevented the search giant from minting money
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| October 17 |
- The people come to California's rescue
- The credit freeze doesn't scare Joe Sixpack Investor. A state bond issue finds favor with the "little" guy
- Ron Paul in 2012?
- "Our numbers are growing," the Texas Republican tells CNN. Financial chaos is no surprise to him, or his followers.
- Armadillo archaeological mayhem
- Reconstructing history rewritten by rodent burrows is a dirty job. But someone will do it
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| October 20 |
- Lessons from the bailout
- The credit crunch is loosening up. Now is the time to show the same kind of big government love to Main Street.
- The evolution of Ben Bernanke
- Ten months ago, he grudgingly supported a stimulus package. Today, his endorsement is wholehearted
- Obama's message to Florida
- In a state ravaged by the housing bust, the candidate asks: "Are you better off now than you were four weeks ago?"
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| October 21 |
- As Greenspan plummets, Volcker surges
- If you could trade shares in Fed chairmen, it's time to sell the Maestro. As for Bernanke? Every week, it's a different story.
- The secret to Rachel Maddow's ratings success
- It's all about Princeton professor star power. Go Tigers!
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| October 22 |
- Wall Street's California problem
- Wachovia reports a $23.7 billion quarterly loss. "Westward ho!" now looks like a pretty bad rallying cry for the North Carolina bank.
- Hank Paulson rewrites history
- The Treasury Secretary tells Charlie Rose that an earlier push to recapitalize banks wouldn't have made "any difference"
- The Wal-Mart recession
- Another dismal economic indicator: Paycheck-related spikes in baby formula purchases
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| October 23 |
- No more legroom for bankers
- Tough times are forcing the former masters of the universe to fly coach. Will the degradation ever end?
- Could Mitt have saved McCain's bacon?
- Financial expertise is in short supply on the Republican ticket. But Romney's old company, Bain Capital, has its own problems
- Henry Waxman stays on the warpath
- Lehman, AIG, and the credit ratings agencies got their day in the harsh Congressional sun. Next up: Federal regulators
- Alan Greenspan blames Wall Street
- Who is responsible for the financial crisis? Hint: Not poor people
- Waxman: A mean man with the gavel
- Republicans want a special prosecutor to investigate Fannie and Freddie. But the House Oversight chair just won't hear of it.
- A foodie dream come true
- Do you like ethnic cuisine? A market research firm may have a job for you
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| October 24 |
- "Extreme market stress": Dow drops 450 at open
- Forget about that fancy-pants credit freeze. It's a good old real economy meltdown that has investors terrified now
- A glimmer of hope in home sales?
- For the first time in three years, sales of existing homes rise year-over-year. But you still need a microscope to see signs of a recovery
- $700 billion: Blink, and it's gone
- It's beginning to look like Hank Paulson didn't ask Congress for enough cash.
- How to fix the mortgage business
- We don't need a revolution: Just a tweak here and there, and it will be as good as new
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| October 27 |
- Lost decade, schmost decade
- Japan gets the week started off with a bang. The Nikkei stock index falls to a 26-year low
- Another laugher from Arthur Laffer
- The brain behind supply-side economics goofs again.
- The return of the Third World
- Next up on the global economy catastrophe hit-list: Emerging economies. Let's be fair: They need a bailout, too
- Whatever happened to food versus fuel?
- Commodity grain prices are collapsing. Perhaps biofuels were not the primary villain in the global food crisis?
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| October 28 |
- Home price happy news
- The speed at which housing values are dropping is slowing. Break out the champagne?
- Why no bailout for the hungry?
- Compared to the billions governments are handing to banks, the cost of ending starvation seems cheap
- The Long Depression is hot, hot, hot!
- The New York Times had the story. In 1911. Pay attention or you will get burned again
- Bjork's sad credit crunch song
- First Iceland's banks got zapped by the global financial crisis. Next up: Lava fields and hot springs?
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| October 29 |
- Investor euphoria amid a global recession
- What's wrong with this picture? Stocks go up while the global economy goes down, down, down
- Sarah Palin's silly energy speech
- Neither Alaska, nor its governor, has the answer to America's energy problems
- Easy money days are here again
- Ready for the next bubble? The Fed cuts interest rates all the way down to 1 percent.
- Chinese advice for the next U.S. president
- China wants to be more involved in running the global economy. But the U.S. just wants China to consume more.
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| October 30 |
- The Exxon recession
- The economy contracts, but Exxon-Mobil boasts record profits. Where's a socialist redistributionist when you need one?
- Did Porsche blitzkrieg the hedge funds?
- Volkswagen short-sellers took a bath this week. Traders are blaming the German government for foul play
- The socialist Economist endorses Obama
- Since 1843, the magazine has supported free markets. Wha' happened?
- Acid rain loves a good recession
- In China, cleaning up coal-fired power plants suddenly isn't such a great business
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| October 31 |
- Greenspan, Einstein, and peer review
- Could the Maestro's pronouncements on deregulation have benefited from a more scientific approach?
- The big Ford truck: Back from the dead
- Don't call it a comeback: As gas prices fall, F-150 sales may be poised for a rebound. That was quick!
- A McCain economic advisor goes way off-message
- Martin Feldstein says it's time for the government to start spending like mad. So maybe Mr. "Spending Freeze" is the wrong guy for the job?
- The youth vote in Berkeley, California
- A real stunner: Barack Obama out-polls Alan Keyes by more than a thousand votes.
- An economic incentive to vote
- A case study in trying too hard: Three economists argue that voting is an act of charity
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