That Economic Summit? It "devolved into a shouting match"

Yahoo!News has become the closest thing the internet has to a New York Times, or at least what the Times used to be. How weird is that? They're actually better than, say, USA Today, at any rate.

So, to keep y'all updated on the current situation, I give you this, which is one of the more entertaining straight news articles you'll ever read: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown

I thought political meetings only went like this on West Wing.

Update: Yahoo's doing that thing they do where they're updating on the same topic, so it's important but slightly less entertaining. I encourage you to seek out accounts of the meetings last night. It's pretty awesome.

Update 2: Best (and most understandable) explanation of aforementioned crisis I have yet seen: http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/26/news/economy/bailout_impact/index.htm?cnn=yes