NoApparentMotive

As a public service to my friends who are confused about the bailout, I reproduce here almost all of Dean Baker's posts on the bailout, in chronological order from September 19 through this morning.

September 19, 2008

10:39PM

"Questions on the Bush Bailout Package"

September 20, 2008

9:24AM

"The Budget and the Bailout"

12:43PM

"Progressive Conditions for a Bailout"

2:52PM

"Paulson Proposal: A Blank Check for Proven Incompetents"

September 21, 2008

9:22AM

"Paulson Missed the Bubble and Understated the Financial Crisis at Every Point"

11:26PM

"Senator Shelby Doesn't Understand the Bailout"

September 22, 2008

10:24PM

"Stocks Fall Because Congress May Not Give Banks Windfall"

September 23, 2008

5:34AM

"Extending the Bailout: It's Simple, Sell Us the Company and You're In"

September 24, 2008

5:38AM

"Leonhardt is Wrong, Limiting CEO Pay is Not a Sideshow to This Bailout"

11:05PM

"Paulson Says Bailout Is Not Urgent"

September 25, 2008

5:05AM

"No Bailout: Stop Rewarding Incompetence"

5:54AM

"MarketPlace Radio Misleads the Public on the Crisis"

8:25AM

"The Washington Post and Peter Peterson: Two More Reasons to Oppose This Bailout"

11:15PM

"NYT Gets It Wrong: Credit Has Not Frozen"

September 26, 2008

6:33AM

"The NYT Wants to Prop Up Pets.com Stock Price"

2:45PM

"Bailing on the Bailout, or Is It Too Big to Bail?"

September 27, 2008

12:51PM

"Bailout Conditions: Ending Welfare as We Know it Now"

10:21PM

"Wall Street's Infinite Sleaze: Goldman and AIG"

September 28, 2008

12:31PM

"Financial Meltdown: The Day After"

September 29, 2008

5:21AM

"NPR Misrepresents Bailout"

6:09AM

"Why Bail? The Banks Have a Gun Pointed at Their Head and Are Threatening to Pull the Trigger"

8:57PM

"The Bailout Round II: Adult Version? "

10:28PM

"NYT Promotes Hysteria on Bailout Bill"

September 30, 2008

6:18AM

"The Stock Market Is Not the Economy"

10:19PM

"When Wall Street Needs Money, Rules of Journalism No Longer Apply"

11:09PM

"How Do You Make a DC Intellectual Look Less Articulate Than Sarah Palin Being Interveiwed by Katie Couric?"

October 1, 2008

5:27AM

"Thomas Friedman: Another Example of Bailout Support Due to Unthinking Fear and Anger"

5:46AM

"Economics Lesson for Reporters: Other Things Equal, a High Stock Market is a Transfer of Wealth from People Who Don't Own Stock to People Who Do"

2:40PM

"The Credit Squeeze Scare"

October 2, 2008

5:58AM

"Responsibility and the Bailout: Will They Resign If It Fails?"

10:20AM

"The Plunge in Commercial Paper"

12:16PM

"Washington Post Gets Its Argument for the Bailout Wrong"

October 3, 2008

5:27AM

"NYT Reports On Paulson's Role in the Great Heist"

5:38AM

"Letting the Bank Robber Fix the Bank's Books"

6:25AM

"The Problem Is House Prices, NOT Interest Rates"