Is the bailout necessary? Is the bailout just? Plus, Wall Street est mort - so?

Is the bailout necessary?
http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/not-buying-it.php

Is the bailout just?
http://www.slate.com/id/2200604/

Wall Street is dead - what result? http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2008/09/how_big_how_bad_is_it.html

Obama/O'Reilly Transcript

Good stuff...

http://www.bigmouthfrog.org/2008/09/05/fox-news-bill-oreilly-interviews-barack-obama-part-1/

Much belated pix from Arrowhead Stadium (Chiefs-Bengals in October 2007), RFK Stadium (2007 MLS Cup) and Giants Stadium (USA-Argentina 2008)

David Einhorn and Joseph Stiglitz

The perspicacious Einhorn (an outspoken hedge fund manager with a philanthropic streak) on the root causes of the credit crisis:

http://www.designs.valueinvestorinsight.com/bonus/bonuscontent/docs/Einhorn_Speech.pdf

Stiglitz (an economics professor at Columbia) on what's to be done going forward:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/stiglitz.crisis/

Interesting reads, both.