links for 2008-10-01

• Under Strain, Cities Are Cutting Back Projects - NYTimes.com
• Senate to Vote Wednesday on Bailout Plan - NYTimes.com
• Lesson From a Crisis - When Trust Vanishes, Worry - NYTimes.com
• Rescue the Rescue - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
• Wanted: Intelligent Aliens, for a Research Project - Olivia Judson
• Ideology, Politics, Ignorance Derail Rescue Plan - John M. Berry
• On rescues and bailouts - macroblog
• A Working Financial Sector Matters to Us All - FRB of Atlanta
• How to Make TARP Politically Acceptable - Jeff Frankel
• “Stock Prices Will Stay at High Level...” - The Edge of the American West
• Bernanke Learns Lessons From Great Depression - Real Time Economics
• Media conservatives baselessly blame CRA - Media Matters
• How to make the bailout work - Bronte Capital
• Stiglitz on Worst Case Scenario - The Big Picture
• Congress decides it is worth risking depression - Martin Wolf
• Finding the Public Interest in Response to the Crisis - Societas Podcast
• How can China help reduce emissions policy costs? - Vox EU
• The GOP Blames the Victim - WSJ.com