Briefly

I haven’t been able to make it through more than a few paragraphs of a story about the current financial news without consulting a dictionary—or just tuning out. This news analysis by Peter S. Goodman, of The New York Times, was the first one I read in its entirety, meaning it made sense. Also, I’m going to plug, again, this profile of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, by Steven R. Weisman and Jenny Anderson, that the Times ran about two months ago. It’s also worth reading all the way through.

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UPDATE: This one was good, too. The focus is on small banks, but it explains some banking fundamentals well. It’s by the Post’s Binyamin Appelbaum.