The Harvard Business Review puts the current economic crisis in the perspective of the last 60 years. It’d be nicer, though, if this went all the way back to 1929, just for a good point of comparison. Click through to get the interactive data.

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The Best Links:

1. Brief History of Recessions
2. Via Entitled

BUSINESS BUZZ: Dilbert, the Onion and even Paul Bernanke all called the current economic crisis long before it happened, though in very different ways. If the 20-something writers at the Onion saw this coming, why not the Fed?

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The Best Links:

1. Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’
2. “Taxpayers will give us money so we can build overpriced products to sell to taxpayers!”
3. Bernanke’s 1980s Computer Model Predicts Crisis

POLITICS BUZZ: He may be holding the economic fate of the world in his hands — his manly, sexy hands. The internet is calling him a hottie. Insert “he can bail me out anytime” joke here.

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The Best Links:

1. “Billionairish bald man Hank Paulson is officially hot”
2. Hank Paulson: Hot or Not?
3. “Hank can bail us out any time.”
4. Who Is This Paulson Guy?

BUSINESS BUZZ: Some of the best online explanations of why the financial world is currently going to hell. These are the clearest, cleanest descriptions I’ve found so far of what’s going on with the financial crisis: how it started, how it got this bad, and what it might mean. Please add links you’ve found helpful.

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The Best Links:

1. The 2008 Credit Crisis Blame Game: The Contenders
2. A Quick, Clear Definition of the Subprime Lending & Resulting Credit Crisis
3. The $700 Billion Bailout: You’re Paying $5,200
4. This American Life: The Giant Pool of Money
5. NPR: Planet Money

TECH BUZZ: A site that helps you auction off your bad investments to the U.S. government. Submit your shitpile, including what you thinks its value is, and browse through other piles people are trying to unload. If Washington is buying toxic mortgage securities, maybe they’ll buy your old copies of Cat Fancy magazine.

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The Best Links:

1. Bailout Satire
2. Recent Shit Added to Our Pile
3. Submit Your Shitpile