Friday, September 19, 2008

Six Must Reads on the Week of September 15-19 From MarketBeat

Pick your poison, The Wall Street Journal's David Gaffen is serving them up.

What happened?
One Week Later, a New World Order

I can't keep track of all this
The Bailout Bonanza Scorecard, Revisited

What changed on Friday?
The Government Decrees Stocks Will Rally
Building Levees for Money-Market Funds
Five Reasons: Why the Short-Selling Ban Stinks

Where might the action be next week?
If Shorting is Banned, What about short ETF's?

These were all datelined today. Mr. Gaffen just put on a bravura performance.
In addition to those six there were a couple more posts geared more toward guys like me.

By any measure, quality quantity, sanity, brevity, whatever, this is about as good as financial journalism gets. Talk about writing the first draft of history.