The Federal Reserve in limbo, Edmund Andrews in mortgage trouble and Arthur Laffer as a very gushy book reviewer

Here’s a piece I wrote for TIME.com about the Fed’s indecisive monetary policy decision yesterday. Here’s a post I wrote for the TPM Cafe Book Club discussion of Edmund Andrews’s Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown. And finally, here’s some thrilling CNBC action from this morning:

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