This is a collection of sources from the web that has specialized coverage of the economic crisis.

The CATO Institute's page about the financial crisis has links to articles, book chapters, congressional testimony, audio, and video. An article of note, "Origins of the Financial Market Crisis of 2008" by Anna J. Schwartz (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

"The Cato Institute was founded in 1977 by Edward Crane. It is a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named for Cato's Letters, a series of libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution."

The economic philosophy of CATO is based on the work by Nobel Prize Winning Economist Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Monetary Economics (definition) as it's prism which it views economic policy. Major contributors to Cato:

Milton Friedman (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography, Academy of Achievment interview)

Edward H. Crane (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

James A. Dorn (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Steve Hanke (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

William A. Niskanen (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Center for Economic and Policy Research is a liberal economic research think tank based in Washington, DC.

"CEPR was co-founded by economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot. Our Advisory Board includes Nobel Laureate economists Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz; Janet Gornick Professor at the CUNY Graduate School and Director of the Luxembourg Income Study; Richard Freeman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Eileen Applebaum Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University."

Major Contributors to CEPR:

Dean Baker (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Mark Weisbrot (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Robert Solow (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography, Nobel Prize Interview)

Joseph Stiglitz (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography, Nobel Prize Interview)

Janet Gornick (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Richard Freeman (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Eileen Appelbaum (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

The Ayn Rand Institute is a libertarian organization founded on

"Ayn Rand’s philosophy—known as Objectivism—holds that historical trends are the inescapable product of philosophy. To reverse the current political and economic trends in America and throughout the world requires a reversal of our society’s fundamental philosophy. Victory in this war of ideas will ultimately mean the defeat of the widely held, pernicious ideologies that dominate contemporary culture and threaten our liberty—ideologies such as collectivism, moral relativism and multiculturalism."

Major contributors to Objectivism:

Ayn Rand (books by Rand @ Ole Miss, books about Rand @ Ole Miss, biography, Intro to Objectivism)

Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

Richard H. Timberlake, Jr. (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography)

S. Herbert Frankel (articles, books @ Ole Miss)

Eye on the Bailout page produced by ProPublica. The site has time lines, inter active graphs, and in-depth articles. ProPublica is a non-profit news organization that supports investigative journalism.

Reuters news service is based out of London but has 197 bureaus world wide and reports from 210 countries annually. It is a service that provides reporting and photo journalism to newspapers across the globe.

RGE Monitor provides analysis about the economy targeted at financial professonals. RGE was founded in 2004 by Nouriel Roubini (articles, books @ Ole Miss, biography, on cable news) a economics professor at New York University.