Bailout Satire Bailout Satire
Add your own toxic holdings to the big shitpile here. I almost missed this email because it was diverted to my spam folder. But apparently Paulson is sending this around: Dear A...
Sep 22, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Will Barney Cave? Will Barney Cave?
What I'm hearing right now is that there's a lot of frustration with Barney Frank. Pelosi is deferring to him on this and he's being very cagey. Dodd's plan is out and ready to go...
Sep 22, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Alternatives to the Bailout Alternatives to the Bailout
Dodd's plan is available and I'm digesting it now. The important point here is that the Dems have their own plan: not just fiddling with the margins of the Paulson plan. The rea...
Sep 22, 2008 / Chris Hayes
We Won’t Get Fooled Again We Won’t Get Fooled Again
The verdict on the Paulson plan is in and it's resounding: take this bailout and shove it. Krugman lays out the chief technical deficiency here. The Politico runs down economists'...
Sep 22, 2008 / Chris Hayes
John McCain: Fed Should Make the Crisis Worse John McCain: Fed Should Make the Crisis Worse
Brad DeLong is appropriately gobsmacked by this statement from John McCain: Finally, the Federal Reserve should get back to its core business of responsibly managing our money su...
Sep 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Pillars Of The State The Pillars Of The State
I'm not particularly disposed to libertarianism, particularly the anarcho-capitalist strain represented by Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell, et al. And yet, watching this financial ...
Sep 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Not Impressed Not Impressed
Barry Ritholtz on the SEC's decision to ban short selling: This is nothing short of a total panic by people who have no clue what they are doing. We Are A Nation of Morons, led ...
Sep 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
David Brooks is Pessimistic David Brooks is Pessimistic
Brooks column today is sort of a classic from him: on the surface, it's open-minded, and ambivalent, but ultimately, underneath it all, he manages to advance a deeply conservative...
Sep 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Too Much Too Much
I didn't blog yesterday, because I felt to do so would have required comment on the financial crisis and, well, I wanted to make sure I understood the what hell was going on befor...
Sep 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Q&A With Thomas Frank Q&A With Thomas Frank
The central thesis of Thomas Frank's new book, The Wrecking Crew, is that the kind of obscene depravity witnessed at the Department. of Interior is the natural result of the conser...
Sep 16, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hayes