October 14, 2009 by Anthony W. Orlando

Best of the Week: October 4-10, 2009

10. Bank Buster — David Corn

9. Will Health Insurance Exchanges Work? — Mark Thoma, et al.

8. Should America Copy the Dutch? — Ezra Klein

7. Beware Asset Market and Credit Booms, Bubbles, and Busts in Emerging Markets — Willem Buiter

6. Larry Summers and the White House Economic Team — Ryan Lizza

5. Cap-and-Trade versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy — Robert N. Stavins

4. The Efficacy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — Om Prakash

3. Richard Holbrooke and the War in Afghanistan — George Packer

2. Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis: Products of Common Causes — Maurice Obstfeld & Kenneth Rogoff

1. Too Big to Fail — Andrew Ross Sorkin

BONUS: William Safire (1929-2009), Mother Hen — Hendrik Hertzberg