I came across Stiglitz's take on the crisis this morning; obviously a very reactionary article from a biased sourced (which doesn't necessarily make it wrong), but I thought others here might find it interesting.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/...sis/index.html
I'm not a fan of the rampant regulation that he proposes, but what's the deregulation alternative perspective? Accept that what happened this week was a necessary correction? Put the blame on the companies that failed to self-regulate?