Columns
Good Bailouts and Bad
David O. Beim
Please Think This Over
Edward E. Leamer
A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan
Lawrence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton
What if the Median Voter Were a Failing Student?
Bryan Caplan
Questioning the Treasury's $700 Billion Blank Check: An Open Letter to Secretary Paulson
Aaron S. Edlin
Dr. StrangeLoan: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Collapse
Aaron S. Edlin
Why Paulson is Wrong
Luigi Zingales
Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns
Dwight M. Jaffee and Mark Perlow
Turn Left for Sustainable Growth
Joseph Stiglitz
And here's the link to The Economist's Voice, where one may download the articles in PDF format (I wish they were in HTML to read online). I assume some Congressmen and Congresswomen should be placing these in the Congressional Record, if forced to vote on the bailout bill again, so you may be hearing more about Economists Against Paulson in the future.
For the life of me, I don't understand why Obama isn't leading the charge against Paulson and Wall Street, using the mess to campaign against Bush-McCain's handling of the economy. There should be a clear difference between McCain and Obama on this, but he's fuzzed it all up, if Paulson's "cash for trash" bill passes, Obama might have a decidedly weaker hand to play when it come to the handling of the economy...