Paul Amery: The Great Credit Rating Scandal -- The big credit-rating agencies have a dangerous conflict of interests
Jacques Attali: Financial Reform, Pretended and Postponed -- The political will to reform finance is missing
David Boyle: The New Economics - A Bigger Picture -- We need to rethink money and how we organise society

Ebipere Clark: Credit Default Swaps - A Primer -- An explanation of how credit vehicles work
Molly Conisbee: Food Insecurity for All -- Globalised trade & finance endangers food supplies
Satyajit Das: Credit Default Swaps - Surreal Realities of a Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Traders did not understand what they were trading

Patrice Decafmeyer: Blind Faith -- The banking-regulation rules of Basel II were not followed by many bankers involved
Tyler Durden: The Trillion Dollar Time Bomb -- An even bigger bubble, in commercial real estate in the US, is still waiting to burst
Marc-Henry Ellegaard: Back to Fundamentals -- Risk controls were in place but were not used properly

Pepe Escobar: No Collateral, Just Damage -- US foreign policy is the key to the financial crisis
Niall Ferguson: 'Chimerica' is Headed for Divorce -- The link between China's surplus and US debt is the source of the problem
Jaime Ferrer: The Impact of the Credit Crunch on Industrial Value Chains -- How non-financial businesses will be affected by the downturn

Judith Finn: Sallie Mae - Private Loans & Federal Urges -- How American federally-supported lending helped pile up stocks of bad loans
Douglas French: Productive Debt Versus Unproductive Debt -- Consumption-related borrowing choked off investment
Mark Griffith: Why is the Euro So Fragile? -- Large currency blocs like euroland and the US dollar zone reduce some risks but increase others

Stefan Karlsson: Two Swedish Models -- Sweden's social-welfare/free-trade mix is not the economic success foreign admirers think it is
Sir Andrew Large: Regulating Finance, with or without Central Banks -- With reduced central-bank powers, regulation has to be thought through carefully
Skinner Layne: Credit Crunches and the Currency Regime -- Soft money and excessive currency issue is the underlying cause

Moti Levi: Risks, Decisions, and Market Failures -- Traders ignored system-wide risk when buying and selling supposedly risk-proofed securities
Paul Ormerod: Buying into Risk -- Financiers grew complacent about the maths behind finance theory - they overlooked the 'fat tail' problem
Dean Petkanas: Gone in 60 Milliseconds or Less -- High-speed trading software has totally distorted financial markets, and the danger is growing

Richard Portes: Global Imbalances -- Long-standing deficits and surpluses in international trade fuel credit bubbles
Moritz Schularick: (with Niall Ferguson) The Great Wallop -- Chinese and American interests are going to uncouple nastily soon
Bullet Shih: The US Financial Bubble on Drugs -- Widespread use of anti-depressants by share-owning Americans weakened their sense of risk

Joseph Stiglitz: Wall Street's Toxic Message -- The US is hypocritically avoiding its own bitter medicine, the harsh measures the IMF impose on other debtor countries
Ruth Sunderland: Lehman Sisters - The Sound of Silence -- Male lack of caution did it - countries like Iceland are putting more women in charge of finance
Erwin Tuil: China's Coming Crisis -- China has internal strains of its own almost no-one in the West has noticed yet