More Free Lunch

I posted about David Cay Johnston's book Free Lunch a few weeks ago ("Where It Is Easier to Mine Gold"), and now I've finished it. It's a tremendous expose of the costs and results of the unregulated, trickle-up economics of the last eight, if not twenty-eight, years in the U.S.

I can't resist posting a few pointers to some of the articles about the current crisis that I've found most insightful, including an interview with Johnston himself:

• Catherine Austin Fitts, "Ten Reasons not to bail out Wall Street" and "Our Next Brainstorm: Let's Bail OUT OF Wall Street"
• Noam Chomsky, Anti-democratic nature of US capitalism is being exposed, Irish Times via www.commondreams.org
• David Cay Johnston discussing the second presidential debate the evening before, interview on "Democracy Now" radio show