705P ET: Jed Babbin, Human Events, re John McCain's promises and the party's expectations of a McCain presidency with campaign finance reform, offshore-drilling, ANWR, immigration reform, taxes, the Paulson bailout, and especially the courts. Will John McCain fight the Democratic Senate on court appointments? Re is there hope in the bleakness?
720P: Eric Umansky, ProPublica, re the Paulson plan, version 3, how will the Treasury pick which banks stay in the lifeboat and which banks are asked to exit the lifeboat, and what are the rules? Perhaps rules is too strong.
735P: Roundtable with Diana West, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, re the closing hours of the Black Swan campaign, re Obama off the trail and McCain looking for the trail, re the mysteries of Biden Speak, re the absence of information about Obama's, Biden's and McCain's wardrobe.
750P: Continued re Young Barack Obama the sentimental Marxist opportunist, but then, Ivan Ilyich Ulyanov was a celebrated sentimental Marxist opportunist and look how that turned out?
805P: Financial roundtable with Jim McTague, Barron's, and Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re Alan Greenspan says "I'm sorry" and asks for a do-over for the last forty years. Congress applauds. Re the bear market settles in for a long nap. Re "The Traders Who Touch Their Faces" Blog, Friday 24 October editor (right).
820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Tehran picks Obama, re Hamas picks Obama, re Syria strangely quiet, re the mysteries of Biden Speak over the decades.
835P: Paul Hollrah, New Media Journal, re the unusually large amounts of money flowing into the Obama campaign in peculia dollar amounts such as $198.77 or $143.04, re the piggy bank explanation, re the foreign currency laundering explanation, re the 2.5 million donors to the Obama campaign and the two million of them still unnnamed.
850P: Kevin O'Rourke, TestTube.tv, re the collapse of TV budgets and Hollywood budgets, re where does a movie company go to get a bailout, the the new sit com pitch, "I Was A Teenaged Banker (and now I'm an outlaw)"
905P: Candice Knezevic, EnoughProject.org, re the genocide in the Eastern Congo the deade long civil war, the depredations and the expectations, re the credit crisis reached the Congo in 1912 and never left, re African expectations of the Obama administration
920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re Hamas prepares the victory parade for the Obama/Biden ticket, re what does Hamas want and how long will it take? Re the odd remark by Ahmed Yousef that Hamas is in communication with the Bush administration.
935P: Andrew Meier, "The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Service," re the mystery and the solution of Isaiah Oggins, born 1898 in Connecicut, who pursued his leftist passion to joining Stalin's NKVD in 1928 and working to spy on the Germans, the Japanese and himself until he and his wife were snared by Stalin's Gulag.
955P: Exeunt Bob Zimmerman re the India moonshot and the Asian moon race.
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705P PT: Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal, re the crashed California housing market and signs of repair and reawakening that resemble animating a corpse, re California with 12% of the nation's housing but with 34% of the loans in the mortgage backed security sausage that is the rot inside the machine, re Merced County (right, the original county courthouse, 1875, now a museum) re brown laws, foreclosed renters, banks without pity, re 2006 in Los Banos in Merced county showed subprime loans at 45%. If you own a house in California, you want to know about Merced County.
720P: Devin Nunes, congressman 21st California (R), Tulare County in San Joaquin Valley, the farm belt, re the credit crisis in the Valley, re the campaign trail after his double "No" votes on the Paulson bailout plan Tarp I and Tarp II, re the remains of the Republican House and he GOP minority leadership that failed on September 29 and October 3, voting with the Maximum Bankers.
735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the McCain campaign wanders the map looking for a poll that doesn't frown; re the rumors of McCain camp abandoning ship before it sinks; re the mystery of the Obama team.
750P: Continued re the strange case of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank: the good cop/bad cop formal?
805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, The McLoughlin group, Bill Whalen, Hoover, John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the strange case of the absent candidate doing better in the polls than the present candidate, re the unusual world of Joe Biden, re the delcine and fall of the GOP.
820P: Continued re who will be blamed, re the America people surge for a savior who is also a cipher.
835P: Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the deepening and darkening world wide recession, re the wish-dream of de-coupling, re the sell-off in European bourses accelerates.
850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Univere in a Mirror," re the India moonshot, the Asian moon race, the Soyuz returns to Earth, re the Hubble backup restart.
905P: Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, at Baghdad, re the plunging price of oil and the Iraqi budget, re the world wide recession hits Iraq, re the security in Baghdad and the price of oil, re OPEC cuts and Iraq, Iraqi Spokesman Rebuffs U.S. Admiral Remarks on Security Pact.
920P: Patrick Barta, Wall Street Journal, at Jakarta, re the South Sea seaweed bubble and the collapse of commodities, Indonesia Soaked as Seaweed Bubble Bursts re the global recession hits Asia and takes down the most vulnerable.
935P: Andy Jampoler, author, "The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt's Flight form the Gallows," re the man who knew Booth and the conspirators was in Elmire, New York on the day Booth shot Lincoln, and he ran.
955P: Exeunt re banking crisis of 1933 and FDR's (right, March 12, 1933) -- Let us unite in banishing fear," -- first fireside chat on banking.
