I have recently purchased a number of books about the meltdown and am reading through them as I follow events on CSpan and online newspapers.
Niall Ferguson's book Ascent of Money was not published until May 2008 so he had a chance to add a final section anticipating the meltdown.
Then there is the Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles Morris
As far back as 2002 Krugman was writing in his collected oped pieces for the NY Times in The Great Unraveling "Uncle Alan may not be able to save us single-handedly"
December 19, 2008 Krugman gave a really interesting speech about the meltdown and what might be ahead...2010 might see things getting better, but then worse....and he also favored infrastructure assistance, ideally cultural assistance, but not likely.
His talk to the National Press Club is live right now. I do not know how long it can be accessed
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=282976-1
I will be able to check out Uncle Alan in his 2008 biography The Age of Turbulence Adventure's in a New World.
Curious about the backgrounds of all of our master of the universe including Paulson I have The Partnership the Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D Ellis.
Finally I am into Chain of Blame by Paul Muolo who has been following the real estate bubble from the perspective of a trade publication.
What am I really doing this for. Of course it is all great reading, entertainment I suppose, but I am trying to decide how to structure my own life next year from retirement in a way to decide how best to handle my own economic affairs.
