Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club - New York Times

Here's another great article on the credit crunch.

Many economists, on the right and the left, now argue that the only solution is for the federal government to step in and buy some of the unwanted debt, as the Fed began doing last weekend. This is called a bailout, and there is no doubt that giving a handout to Wall Street lenders or foolish home buyers — as opposed to, say, laid-off factory workers — is deeply distasteful. At this point, though, the alternative may be worse.

Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club - New York Times

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