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Bailout Linkfest . . .

Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 11:15 AM

Comprehensive linkage as to where you can get the details of the tentative agreement:

• Bailout Bill: Discussion Draft.pdf

• Lawmakers Reach Accord On Huge Financial Rescue (Washington Post)

• Lawmakers Say They Have Breakthrough on Rescue Plan (Bloomberg)

• Summary of the Draft Proposal To Rescue U.S. Financial Markets (WSJ)

• Breakthrough Reached in Negotiations on Bailout (NYT)

• Three Men And a Bailout (Time)

• Man in the News: Hank Paulson (FT)

• Lawmakers Reach Tentative Bailout Deal (WSJ)

• Making A Mint: Despite public outcry, taxpayers are likely to come out ahead (Barron's)

• The Real Costs of the Bailouts (WSJ); see also What is it Really Going to Cost? (Newsweek)

• Bailout plan will help most Americans, but not as much as you might like (MarketWatch)

• A Memo from Wall Street to Wash DC (Barron's) If no Barron's, go here

• How it got this bad (Fortune)

• Timeline: Three Weeks of Financial Turmoil (NYT)

• 25 Harshest Reactions To the Wall Street Bailout (10 zen monkeys)

Wall Street Research:

• Confidence is a Function of Capital, Not Liquidity (The Institutional Risk Analyst)

• A View of the U.S. Subprime Crisis.pdf (Citibank)

• Urgent Appeal: Recapitalize Financial Institutions Rather than Bail Out Debt (Merk Funds)

• An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Regarding the Current Financial Crisis (John Hussmann)

• Moral Hazard and the End Game ( Brown Brothers, Harriman and co)

• Pontificatus Interruptus (Cumberland Advisors)

• Why the Treasury TARP bailout is flawed (RGE)

• Who's Afraid of a Big, Bad Bailout? (John Mauldin)

Interactive / Video:

• Tentative Financial Bailout Deal Announced (WSJ)

• Financial Turmoil (NYT)

• Tally of Federal Rescues (NYT via Big Picture)

• Princeton: Crisis on Wall Street

• Harvard Panel Discussion: Is the Crisis Real?

• Roubini: U.S. Bank Rescue Plan Is `Very Flawed' (Bloomberg)

• Bailing out the economy and 'averting serious consequences' (USA Today)

• 37 Bailout Cartoons and Bailout Cartoons, part II (Posterous/Big Picture)

• Bailout by the Numbers (Portfolio)

• How Much is $700 Billion? (USA Today)

• Spheres of Influence (Newsweek)

• Bailout Protest Videos (True Majority)

• Emergency measures (Marketwatch)

• What will the Bailout buy? (NYT)

• Parody: MAD on the bailout: Smells Like Greed Spirit (boingboing)

Related stories:

• Futures tick higher (Bloomberg)

• A nation of debtors (The Globe and Mail)

• Weakness will be just tip of the iceberg (MarketWatch)

• Economy in Trouble, No Matter Bailout Outcome (Real Time Economics)

• Money Markets Smolder While DC Debates (Barron's)

• Main Street turns against Wall Street (Fortune)

• How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street (Time)

• A successful bailout? Watch lending between banks (AP)

• A Better Way to Aid Banks (Washington Post)

• Pelosi: Bailout means 'party is over' on Wall Street (USA Today)

• In praise of free markets (FT)

• Don’t Keep Talking Happy Talk (Newsweek)

• Nouriel Roubini's Ten Steps To Recovery (Forbes)

• Do Caps on Executive Compensation Really Work? (Time)

• Wall Street, R.I.P.: The End of an Era, Even at Goldman (NYT)

• Gold rises on safe-haven buying after plan stalls (MarketWatch)

• What the death of the investment bank means for Wall Street (Economist)

• Bailing Upward: Why Congress needs to suck it (The New Republic)

• U.K. Set to Nationalize B&B (WSJ)

• Wachovia Begins Early Deal Talks with Citi (Dealbook)

• Wall Street Executives Made $3 Billion Before Crisis (Bloomberg)

• Fixing the Paulson Plan (WSJ)

• Maybe Short-Selling Isn’t So Bad, After All (NYT)

• The "New" New Deal (The Big Picture)

• America Needs A New New Deal (WSJ)

• Why Mark-to-Paulson Accounting Won't Save Banks (Bloomberg)

• The Botox Bailout (blog maverick)

• HOW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AFFECTS THE OLDEST PROFESSION (Slate)

• Short-sale ban disrupts trades for hedge funds (MarketWatch)

• Distress in the Financial Sector and Economic Activity (FRB)

• An Inside View of a Stormy White House Summit (WSJ)

• Regulators Seek to Increase Confidence in Fortis (Bloomberg)

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