there is a quite good--but long--article from yesterday's ny times on the linkages between the crisis, the rise of derivate trading, banking deregulation and neoliberalism (the last being a condition of possibility and not an explicit object of critique--this after all being amurica where the horse has no name, still):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/bu...pagewanted=all
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worth reading--i could paste it too, if that ends up being easier.