Events continue to move extremely quickly. The Deal newsweekly again focuses on the continuing crisis, anchored by a
trenchant piece by Ron Orol out of Washington on the bailout package -- a package that, in the swirl of events, has almost been forgotten. That's followed by a
postmortem by Washington bureau chief Bill McConnell on what really happened in the Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Wachovia Corp., Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. imbroglio. From New York, Matt Miller
surveys Asia, which not only went through a searing financial crisis of its own in the late-'90s but felt the lash of the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund as a result. As Miller reports, Asia responded with a degree of schadenfreude, that's since been followed by fear and uncertainty. From London, Jonathan Braude in View from the City looks at the indecisive response of Gordon Brown's Labour government to the crisis. And, out of Europe, our reporter in Brussels, Renee Cordes, takes a look at Europe's difficulties in pulling together a coordinated response to the crisis -- an attempt that looks even more complex as the G7 begins to meet in Washington and Iceland begins to look like an IMF bailout candidate.
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As usual, we have more. John Blakeley uses three case studies to look at renewed union activism in bankruptcy situations, and Kenneth Klee and Suzanne Stevens from our Corporate Dealmaker operation tackle the large, and developing, subject of post-merger integration in the spate of large bank mergers, often shotgun marriages with the FDIC holding the shotgun. And, of course, there's all the rest of our usual fare: columns, stats and news analysis. Stay tuned. We'll be back with more next week. - Robert Teitelman
Robert Teitelman is editor in chief of The Deal.
