Robert Reich

With unemployment at 8.5 percent, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich finally called it:
This is still not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it is a Depression.

Every hour of every day brings reams of fresh news reports and commentaries on the Wall Street crisis and the competing bailout proposals wending their way through Congress, but that doesn’t mean you can learn anything from most of them. Here’s a guide to the best, most comprehensible commentaries on the present mess.