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America's economic crisis has become a political crisis -- with the second now compounding and exceeding the first. In the past few days we have witnessed something extraordinary: the revolt of ideology against authority, even against reality. The Bastille of establishment opinion has been stormed...(more)
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IT'S THE biggest government bailout package ever, some $700 billion to keep Wall Street and the American financial system afloat after a poorly regulated credit binge and a still-bursting housing bubble. Yet some four days after the massive federal intervention was proposed, only three things seem...(more)
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How do we avoid becoming another Japan? That question has prompted U.S. officials to move aggressively in recent weeks as they seek to save the American financial system while avoiding the kinds of regulatory pitfalls that plunged Japan into economic quicksand almost two decades ago....(more)
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To hear it from critics on the left and right, the Bush administration and legislative leaders were in such a rush to pass a "$700 billion bailout for Wall Street" that they failed to consider much simpler, cheaper, common sense approaches. In fact, all of...(more)
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself. Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written...(more)
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With the terms of possible further assistance not spelled out, there is no guarantee that the upturn in the stock market will continue.
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Democrats began the week with a you-break-it-you-buy-it approach to the financial crisis: It's President Bush's fault, let him fix it. But disarray approached a meltdown and possible collapse of the entire economy. Only then did the Democrats, who control...
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An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. In March 1971, Hunter Stockton Thompson was in his mid-30s, grinding out a marginal career in freelance journalism. He had published one moderately successful book, "Hell's Angels: The...(more)
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On a normal day, we'd all be buzzing about the McCain adviser's tone-deaf claim that his man practically invented the BlackBerry. But this is not a normal day, or a normal week. The domino-like collapse of one Wall Street insitution after the next--Bear, Fannie, Freddie,...(more)
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Michael Gerson ["Nominees in Need of Ideas," op-ed, Sept. 24] discussed President Bush's response to the financial crisis and said that he and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had "assumed the mantle of Franklin D. Roosevelt." Praising the president for merely attempting to clean...(more)
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Joe Lockhart was watching the instant feedback from focus groups during the final presidential debate four years ago, and the reaction showed that his candidate, John Kerry, was beating President Bush. But strategist Matthew Dowd, who was in the Bush holding room, recalls his team's...(more)
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As each day's news brings more dire warnings of doom and panic, the people in charge tell us how urgent it is that we all bail out huge, rich businesses that massively mucked up their work. Politicians, journalists and business executives alike hide behind thick...(more)
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