It's the economy...

As the stock markets shuddered and the politicians scrambled to find some kind of answer to the world's financial troubles, we figure it probably is time for us to chronicle some of the developments from the voodoo world of economics, investment and high finance.

We'll track some of our favourite writers on the topic and add any other items we stumble across as we all stumble along the path of financial perdition.
The plan is to pick up the story with this weekends meetings in Washington and then back track over the last couple of weeks as the markets spiralled downwards and the financial pinch became tighter and tighter.

Check back frequently to see how things have developed and how they are explained to the masses, we'll archive our findings in the right hand column section under the items of special interest section...

New York Times

Oct 29-- Loans? Did We Say We’d Do Loans?
Oct 29-- G.M. Faces a Fall to No. 2 as Global Sales Slip
Oct 28-- Sleepless in Tehran
Oct 28-- Mourning Old Media’s Decline
Oct 27-- Shoot the Horses?
Oct 27-- G.M. Speeds Hat in Hand to Treasury
Oct 26-- The Widening Gyre
Oct 26-- Desperately Seeking Seriousness
Oct 22-- Stocks Decline as Earnings Reveal Fallout of Credit Crisis
Oct 22-- Bailout (and Buildup)
Oct 20-- Vive la Dépression!
Oct 20-- The Real Plumbers of Ohio
Oct 18-- The Great Iceland Meltdown
Oct 18-- The Downturn’s Upside
Oct 18-- He Just Can’t Quit W
Oct 16-- Let’s Get Fiscal
Oct 16-- Buy American. I Am
Oct 14-- Why How Matters
Oct 12-- Gordon Does Good
Oct 11-- The Post-Binge World
Oct 11-- White House Overhauling Rescue Plan
Oct 11-- Those With Sense of History May Find It’s Time to Invest
Oct 11 -- Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!
Oct 11-- Echoes of a Dismal Past
Oct 9-- Moment of Truth
Oct 7-- Palin’s Kind of Patriotism
Oct 4-- Swedish Spoken Here
Oct 2-- Edge of the Abyss
Sept 30-- Rescue the Rescue
Sept 28-- The 3 A.M. Call
Sept 27-- Green the Bailout
Sept 25-- Where Are the Grown-Ups?
Sept 24-- Dear Iraqi Friends
Sept 22-- Cash for Trash
Sept 18-- Crisis Endgame
Sept 14-- Financial Russian Roulette
Sept 8-- The Power of De

Wall Street Journal

Oct 28-- More Car Dealers Shut Down
Oct 28-- Labor Unions Prolonged the Depression
Oct 27-- The Europeanization of America
Oct 22-- Derivatives and Mass Financial Destruction
Oct 22-- Plan B for AIG
Oct 22-- How to Restore Confidence in Our Markets
Oct 11-- World's Financial Leaders Vow to Unite
Oct 11-- What History Tells Us About the Market
Oct 11-- Wild Day Caps Worst Week Ever for Stocks
Oct 11-- Rescue Plan Comes Around to Views of the Academics
Oct 11-- Nations Face Thorny Issues in Acquiring Stakes in Banks

National Post (Financial Post)

Oct 29-- Cracks appearing in condo land
Oct 29-- Loonie gains the most in almost 40 years
Oct 29-- TSX gains almost 4% on commodities, rate cut
Oct 29-- Canadians still want to buy homes: survey
Oct 29-- The Obama factor
Oct 29-- Oil sands still viable at US$60 a barrel: Suncor
Oct 28-- Canada's housing market 'tracking' U.S. boom and bust
Oct 27-- Buffett is wrong: Part II
Oct 27-- Buffett is wrong: avoid stocks
Oct 27-- The next worry: a deflationary slump, like Japan
Oct 27-- Battered insurers look to Ottawa for help
Oct 27-- Dr. Doom forecasts depression
Oct 27-- U. S. Banks Remain 'On Strike'
Oct 27-- Economist who foresaw crisis warns of deflation
Oct 27-- TSX closes below 9,000 for first time in 4 years
Oct 27-- Flight to safety clips loonie's wings
Oct 26-- How to rescue the global economy
Oct 24-- Canada's nuclear attack
Oct 24-- Loonie headed for worst monthly fall since 1950
Oct 23-- Canada: run deficits, back banks
Oct 23-- How the banking deal was done
Oct 22-- Washington sets summit for Nov. 15 as global crisis deepens
Oct 22--Canadian dollar dives below 80 cents
Oct 22-- Overnight interbank lending rate lowest since June 2004
Oct 21-- Loonie's nosedive far from over
Oct 21-- Why the Bank of Canada pulled its punch
Oct 20-- Ottawa faces test on stake in banks
Oct 18-- 'Broken big time'
Oct 18-- Tales from the trenches of a real estate crash
Oct 18-- As housing craters, exports boom
Oct 18-- UN offers to host G8 financial summit
Oct 18-- Bush to host summit on global financial crisis
Oct 18-- Time is running out
Oct 18-- Buy if you can, or hold tight
Oct 18-- China's prospects best in the developed world
Oct 17-- Signs of North American economic meltdown mount
Oct 17-- Canadian consumer confidence falls to 26-year low
Oct 17-- Harper sees balanced budget this year
Oct 17-- Economic slump to slowdown oil sands
Oct 16-- Canada can’t avoid recession or deficit, Cooper warns
Oct 11-- IMF warns of financial meltdown; U.S. urges patience
Oct 11-- Europeans leave U.S. meetings early for crisis summit
Oct 11-- Britain to give details of banking plan next week
Oct 10-- Washington weighs more steps to bolster banks
Oct 11-- Canada's $25-billion mortgage plan
Oct 10-- TSX falls another 6% in equity 'train wreck'
Oct 10-- Loonie has biggest one-day drop since 1971
Oct 10-- Global crisis tempers Canada's swagger
Oct 10-- G7 vows to fight credit crunch but details sketchy

Globe and Mail

Oct 29-- Large and late: Markets are real swingers
Oct 29-- B.C. housing heads downhill
Oct 29-- Milton Friedman's fault? Not a chance
Oct 29-- From vicious bear to raging bull
Oct 29-- GM-Chrysler deal may cost 25,000 jobs, consultant says
Oct 29-- Sony profit plunges 72 per cent on strong yen
Oct 29-- Dollar stages unprecedented gain
Oct 28-- A tense quiet precedes Kremlin's big move
Oct 28-- Auto-parts industry seeks $1-billion in loans
Oct 27-- Moody's cuts GM, Chrysler deeper into junk
Oct 27-- Late-day selloff sinks TSX
Oct 27-- Regulator eyes break for insurers
Oct 23-- It'll be the economy, economy, economy in 2009
Oct 22-- How the IMF works and why countries are lining up
Oct 22-- Loonie dives under 80 U.S. cents
Oct 22-- Oil falls below $68 on recession fears
Oct 22-- Crisis pounds emerging markets
Oct 21-- Friedman under attack
Oct 19-- South Korea to shore up its banks
Oct 18-- IMF investigating its chief over relationship
Oct 18-- Bush agrees to host financial crisis summits
Oct 18-- Wanted: a new financial order
Oct 18-- Henry Paulson's mail basket
Oct 17-- Bush says crisis has moved beyond Wall St.
Oct 17-- U.S. confronts what may be long, deep recession
Oct 17-- Remorseful Paulson regrets 'mistakes'
Oct 13-- The sky isn't falling, so it's no time for Ottawa to overreact
Oct 11-- Capitalism takes a lot of killing
Oct 11-- IMF calls for vigilance in fighting credit crisis
Oct 11-- Bush pledges to work with G7 on credit crisis
Oct 11-- Co-operation among G7 unprecedented
Oct 11-- Auto merger has many pitfalls, few advantages
Oct 11-- Reflections on the Big Owe of '08
Oct 11-- The Depression's history lessons
Oct 11-- Oil plunges to 13-month low

Vancouver Sun

Oct 29-- Loonie, TSX soar on commodities bounce
Oct 29-- B.C. housing sales will plunge 28 per cent: report
Oct 29-- 'Global downturn presents huge challenge for hospitality industry,' CEO says
Oct 28-- Hedging against a falling dollar isn't foolproof
Oct 27-- Markets will focus on Wednesday's Fed rate cut
Oct 27-- Greenspan admits mistakes in his methods helped set stage for financial disaster
Oct 27-- Wages, wealth to be eroded in recession: Think-tank
Oct 20-- B. C. in better position than most to weather financial storm
Oct 18-- Explaining the world economic credit crisis
Oct 18-- Declines in housing sectors threaten Victoria's cash cows
Oct 18-- Pension funds down 10 per cent year-to-date
Oct 18-- TROUBLING TIMES, EXPERT ADVICE
Oct 18-- Lessons from recessions past
Oct 17-- Exactly How Bad Is It?

Other news sources

Oct 28-- Banks may need further support from taxpayers as recession bites
Oct 28-- Pound in free fall and traders say there’s no way to stop the plunge
Oct 27-- G7 'preparing to drive down the yen'
Oct 26-- Europe on the brink of currency crisis meltdown
Oct 26-- Nouriel Roubini: I fear the worst is yet to come

The Podunkian archives .

Oct 11-- Uh, can we have a second opinion on that?
Oct 1-- Because “Money’s got to circulate”
Sep 29-- A Stock drop of over one point, for every billion dollars requested (and refused)
Sept 15-- When the Bulls and Bears get spooked, somebody’s going to get trampled!