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Neil Irwin's Must Reads
September 6, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web.
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
The New York Times | Where did the economics profession go wrong in the lead-up to the crisis, and how can it gain its footing again? Paul Krugman has a tour-de-force exposition.
Henry Paulson’s Longest Night
Vanity Fair | As the financial crisis swirled through 2008, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was talking to Todd Purdum, giving him a real-time view of his thinking, embargoed until Paulson left office.
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