Echoes of the Depression: 1929 and all that

From The Economist print edition. How today’s financial crisis resembles the one that happened three-quarters of a century ago, and how it does not.

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Fed Moves Rally Futures

Stock futures jumped after the Fed said it would buy companies' short-term debt and investors looked for coordinated interest-rate cuts from central banks. Markets in Europe and Asia rebounded.

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Opinion: Loose Money And the Roots Of the Crisis

Op-Ed piece on the role of central bankers in the credit crisis.

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EU Fights Irrelevance in Crunch

The EU tried to coordinate its response to the banking crisis, but markets slid amid questions about its members' ability to act as a bloc.

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Fed Looks to Ease Strains in Commercial-Paper Market

U.S. officials are examining ways to ease deepening strains in the commercial paper market, which have been hit by an unwillingness among money market investors to hold risky assets.

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Corporate America caught in global credit undertow

U.S. companies are finding it harder and costlier to raise funds for daily operations in the latest sign that the global credit crunch is fast spreading beyond the banking sector.

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Financial Crises Spread in Europe

The growing crisis has underlined the difficulty of taking concerted action in Europe because its economies are far more integrated than its governing structures.

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Full of Doubts, U.S. Shoppers Cut Spending

Consumers are pulling back on their spending, all but guaranteeing that the economic situation will get worse.

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Uncertainty Over Rescue Intensifies Credit Crisis - WSJ.com

New signs are emerging that suggest the credit crisis is deepening as lenders grow more distrustful of their own customers and each other.

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WSJ.com - Opinion: How Government Stoked the Mania

Housing prices would never have risen so high without multiple Washington mistakes. (Ok so this has some Op-Ed influence, but still raises thoughtful points and has supporting data.)

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