These are my links for September 30th:

• The harder they fall: Will the Big Four survive the credit crunch? By Rob Lewis - 30 Sep 2008 - No

  My one word answer

  Nor will they deserve to. They created the accounting mess. No one trusts the accounts they sign. What use are they?

• FT.com / Companies / Retailing & leisure - Baugur investor files for administration - Iceland begins to go under - and it will
• OK, we are a banana republic - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog - Not much to add to that
• FT.com / In depth - McCain blames Obama for bail-out rejection - McCain looks impetuous, and so out of depth

  It's one of the rare benefits of this situation