You know, amongst all this panic, it really does seem that this loan securitisation thing did what it was supposed to. Put the risk amongst those who could afford it.

With all this talk of more regulation...might we hope that the current regulators stop working entirely at loggerheads?

Netsmith (for the value of Netsmith's opinion) rather likes this outline of what actually happened and who might be to blame.

A reminder that you really do want to beware those bearing statistics.

This is something that you might want to join in with. Take a photo of our free and pleasant land....

A rather better example of what makes this a free and pleasant land...

And finally, what credit crisis and great research reports of our time.