That my post: Citigroup to Wachovia should be in the category of "Bailout as criminal enterprise".

When the government choses one company to swallow another (Citigroup), sets the price for the "mark" (Wachovia) at one seventh of the market value (proven by Wells Fargo's bid), holds a gun to the mark's head that they have to agree/have no choice or they will be shut down that day, and also puts taxpayer funds at risk to do it, I think that is as close to a criminal operation as you can get.

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Fantastic work!

May I suggest adding under pundits (because I have no original thoughts)

"The Reckoning Will Be Worse Than You Can Imagine"

and under either costs or programs foreclosed:

Finance Committee Ds on Healthcare: We All Know There Isn't Enough Money To Do This Stuff

and under sausage making:

Pelosi: If You're Very Good Boys & Girls We'll Let You Read the Legislation Before We Pass It

or not. The list is great as it is.

Just Wow. This is impressive, seeing it all together like this. Great blogging, all!

(And let's not forget the Nouriel Roubini Halloween mask. Mmmm, I think I'm in love.)

would have been helpful; I read the vast majority of these and most of their comments but sometimes it was really difficult with RL.

Reading them in book form (if that's what you call being linked by topic) would have been much easier.

all did great work. Others might have, but I am reading fewer blogs these days.

if not, I think we should have something on Bernanke's bail-out that is not through Congress that is still continuing--the rate cut(s) and the billions (more than the Congressional money) injected through the Fed Reserve.

Here is Manuel Hinds in WSJ explaining not only how many more billions the banks have gotten, but their harmful distrust of each other (they won't lend except at very high rates):
"The Federal Reserve injected $480 billion domestically and globally last week and it doubled the dose this Monday, injecting more than $900 billion in one single day. That makes for almost twice the $700 billion rescue package that Congress approved with so much discussion last week....Imagine that you are playing poker with 10 people and that you learn that a minority of them is broke and would not pay you if they lose. You don't know, however, who the ones are who won't pay. In this environment, the risk of losing would be too high even if you know that most of the players are perfectly sound financially and would pay up if they lose."

jawbone's post, maybe under structural/financial issues.

whatever happened to the post about "martial law." I made a comment debunking, with links, the notion that the administration had threatened to impose martial law on the country if the House didn't pass the bill. An hour or so after I made my comment, I checked back to see if anyone had responded, and lo, the post and all the comments had been disappeared.

I found that odd, to say the least.