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The End of the Financial World as We Know It: The New York Times - Added:January 6, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; A great two-parter on what went wrong and what can be done about it (though the tone is resigned to the fact that it's unlikely those things will be done).

Limits on Executive Pay May Prove Toothless: The Washington Post - Added:December 15, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; So much for limiting those golden parachutes.

A string of grim economic news sends the Dow tumbling below the 8,000 mark. - By Daniel Politi - Slate Magazine: Slate - Added:November 20, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; A nice overview of how the uneasy economy is playing out in newspapers.

Digg - Markets React to Obama's Victory: digg.com - Added:November 5, 2008; 1 link; Discuss

Farm credit still flows, but standards tighten: www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com - Added:October 22, 2008; 1 link; Discuss

TheHill.com - K Street earnings fall: The Hill - Added:October 21, 2008; 1 link; Discuss

It's Wall Street's Turn to Bolster Confidence: The Washington Post - Added:October 14, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; Hopefully this column will be the start of some more sustained criticism and pressure on Wall Street for its behavior during the crisis: "In putting several trillion dollars in government funds on the line, the country has now done just about everything that Wall Street could have asked to address the financial crisis. The question now, as John Kennedy might have put it, is what Wall Street is ready to do for its country. So far, the answer is not much."

TheHill.com - Financial reforms face finger-pointing: The Hill - Added:October 8, 2008; 1 link; Discuss

After Bailout, AIG Executives Head to Resort: voices.washingtonpost.com - Added:October 7, 2008; 2 links; Discuss; What do you do after getting an $85 billion bailout from taxpayers? If you're AIG, you hold a $440,000 resort retreat for company executives.

Bush signs sweetened bailout bill: www.theglobeandmail.com - Added:October 4, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the Globe & Mail: "Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson - who initialed the three-page memo outlining the bailout, which mushroomed into hundreds of pages of goody-filled legislation - promised immediate action to start funneling funds to strapped banks."