Krugman -- Adults needed, immediately.

Senator Obama - TAKE CHARGE.

The more information that comes out and knowing the players involved, I think it's a big, steaming pile of bullshit.

IF the government is going to take any action, it needs to be ownership of the companies, not their bad debt.

Now it has to be a manufactured crisis.

It doesn't matter too much if lightning started it or that bad-ass kid down the street did. It'll burn your house down either way if it isn't fought.

China and the Saudis have the money to make a run on the stock market, but they favor Republican control of the White House, so no way they would do it.

The Japanese have the power to make a run on the stock market. Do you think that they did it to boost Obama's chances? I haven't heard anyone mention any weird financial trading by the Japanese.

Who else in the world could trigger a Wall Street crash?

Consider this possibility: Wall Street panicked because McCain was up in the polls and he and Palin are both shit for brains.

instead of putting it out a year ago.

"Right now, players throughout the system are refusing to lend and hoarding cash."

Why aren't there reports of this happening yet? Why isn't there data on how many loan applications have been rejected this week versus this time last month?

more than it did a week aga. This is the money that compaies borrow in order to get them through unexpected cash crunches. Say taking adbantage of a good inventory buy, or bringing on new workers to meet temporarily expanding demand.

You are putting a hell of a burden on Obama and the Democratic Party just before the election.

propping it up with another trillion dollars of imaginary money will just make the problem worse and will just make it last longer.

Capitalism is the enemy of life. It is utterly false and unsustainable. The collapse of this house of cards is inevitable, whether we shore up its decaying flanks with a pile of paper or not.

I have zero invested in this economy other than a very modest mortgage. I will not be borrowing money ever again. I know that the economy is huge and pervasive and it affects us all. I'm not an idiot. I don't live in a bubble. I'm not immune from the downside. But "saving" this monstrous con game concocted by the ultra-rich to keep the rest of us "in our place" is not worth a nickel to me, much less the thousands the proposed "bail-out" will cost me and my kids (on top of the tens of thousands it has already cost us).

The credit crisis is real. I guess a collapse will bring them out from their positions.

Massive screw ups by these incompetent fools...So Obama and his advisors are suppose to magically have all the info avail to the Bush admin ?