So I didn’t get a chance to note this excellent Washington Post editorial from yesterday:

…the problem with the U.S. economy, more than lack of regulation, has been government’s failure to control systemic risks that government itself helped to create. We are not witnessing a crisis of the free market but a crisis of distorted markets.

And this excellent piece on Henry Cisneros from Sunday’s New York Times (that day’s paper seemed otherwise entirely devoted to Chris Buckley!):

“Henry did everything he could for home builders while he was at HUD,” says Janet Ahmad, president of Homeowners for Better Building, an advocacy group in San Antonio, who has known Mr. Cisneros since he was a city councilor. “That laid the groundwork for where we are now.”