Dispaches from Great Depression 2

I have been busy writing about the economic crisis. Here are samples for my friends at OEN:

• How Credit Default Swaps Brought Down the World Economy

• Bernanke Begs the Banks to Behave

• Paul Volcker: Crisis May be Even Worse than Great Depression'

• This Time ISN'T Different

• The Next Big Thing: Barter

• Economist on Geithner Plan: "If [It] Does Not Involve Wiping Out the Shareholders and Sending the Bank Executives Packing, Then He Has Ripped Us Off."
  

• Where The Jobs Are - Employment Tips for the Depression

• The Neighbor and the Cop

• Larry Summers: Fox Guarding The Henhouse

• Senator: "We've Seen Money Go Out The Back Door Of this Government Unlike Any Time In the History of Our Country . . . No One Knows Where It Went"

• It's More or Less Official: We're In a Global Depression

• Growing List of Officials and Experts Warn of Depression-Induced Violence