At 5 pm Eastern, I’ll be hosting a book salon with Barry Ritholz, about his book Bailout Nation, at Firedoglake. Not to spoil the review, but it’s a good book, in fact, the best I’ve read about the crisis and what lead up to it. Barry’s one of the folks who got it, who understood early. Those who have been following me since I first started writing for blogs will remember that Barry was one of the original writers at The Blogging of the President, the first major blog I wrote for. At that time, him, Oldman, Stirling Newberry, Hale Stewart and myself all wrote for BOPnews. Perhaps nostalgia or pride clouds my memory, but I think BOP at that time had as good or better economics coverage than any blog at the time or since. There is almost nothing, in general terms, which has happened since then economically, which one of us did not discuss then.
Barry is now at The Big Picture, one of the economics blogs I have on my blogroll. I reccomend reading it regularly.