If you want some good sources for keeping up with the constant flow of nonsense that passes for financial news these days, I recommend two blogs:
The Big Picture
Calculated Risk
I think describing them as skeptical would be an understatement, though they’re definitely firmly in the capitalism=good camp. Be sure to read the snarky (and often informative) comments too.
This is the part where we remind them that planning/controlling/managing an economy is “impossible” because it is “far too complex” and things have to be left to “free market forces” without “interference” right?
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(not that those aren’t awesome blogs… I was more referring to Bernake (sp?) et al.)
I don’t think they have the slightest problem with being called hypocrites, as long as they can get away with this plan to keep their ill-gotten gains and pass all of the costs along to the proles. After all, if they had consciences they wouldn’t be robber baron capitalists in the first place.