Another great one from Jeff:
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Why would Pelosi attack Republicans just before asking them for support?

The Dow is down 777+ points ($1.1 trillion in market value) today as I write this as the bailout bill failed the House of Representatives.  Of course, I’m in no place to write at the moment, so here are some links:

Stocks, Oil Plunge After Congress Rejects Bailout; Bonds Rise (Bloomberg.com)
Yes, Virginia, this is a crash (The Big […]

The U.S. Treasury is considering a new, special dollar to be printed to help finance the housing bail out.  Initial prints have been leaked to select media outlets.  We were lucky to get our hands on the new design (h/t Graeme):
 

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A guest post by new Blownmortgage.com contributor, MG Dungan.  MG has gone from Wharton to Wall St. to real estate to Blown Mortgage. And we’re excited.  I hope you are too.
After last week, and last weekend in particular, we can’t help but wonder who’s next.
Although possibly a ploy to gain passage of the Paulson Bailout Plan, […]

Friday Bailout Funny. (h/t Graeme)
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So the biggest bank failure in the history of our country occurred yesterday and quite frankly was somewhat of a non-event. The quick FDIC step-in and subsequent fire sale to JP Morgan kept bank failure on page two with the $700 billion federal bailout clearly the bigger headline. This is something that hopefully […]

This guest post is from: Constantine von Hoffman, a veteran business journalist who writes the blog CollateralDamage.biz, a humorous look at marketing, business and his dog. If you’d like to submit a guest post drop me an email.
From his lips…
“There’s no question that this is in the process of outstripping anything I’ve seen, and […]

This guest post is from: Constantine von Hoffman, a veteran business journalist who writes the blog CollateralDamage.biz, a humorous look at marketing, business and his dog.  If you’d like to submit a guest post drop me an email.
Here’s a heretical notion: How much CEOs get from the bailout doesn’t matter. It’s a smokescreen, red meat being tossed to the […]

A 2003 NY Times article gives us insights into our current financial crisis.