Looks like the total for this bailout will amount to $1.8 trillion. Is it nothing more than an historic swindle? On Friday, unnoticed amid the panic, Standard & Poors upped the amount of estimated mortgage-backed securities that would eventually be written-off by the global banking sector from $285 billion to $378 billion. I’d like to know what Democrat said this. Is ths financial crisis part of Bush’s “Shock Doctrine?” Josh Marshall tells us about the rot. Juan Cole advises that if you’re going to bend over in November, you better like pain!