This is an excellent story about economic problems that led to the $700 billion bail out. Two points come to mind. The first sentence of the story took my breath away. Why did the congressmen not understand what was happen until Bernanke and Paulson told them? Second, again this story came from magazine from England rather than a American media.

Wow! Great piece. Well researched, clear, and comprehensive. It not only presents the facts, but the possibilities and the arguments for each.

Thorough analysis which looks at the costs and benefits of the $700 billion bailout. Unbiased, with a tone throughout the piece of earnestly explaining what we're up against in overdoing -- or not doing enough for -- the remedy. Very clarifying -- complex economic concepts are explained in a straight-forward way. No dramatic or over-emotional tone here to muddy the importance of simply understanding what is going on. I found the comparisons and contrasts to statistics from The Great Depression of the 1930s crucial to understanding the big picture.

Why, oh why, aren't all news stories like this? The Economist has always set a high bar. On a crisis involving finance, economy and politics, this story doesn't disappoint. In a matter-of-fact tone, they lay out all the relevant details.