I spoke to former World Bank Chief Economist and Initiative for Policy Dialogue President Joseph Stiglitz on Saturday by phone, and he shared with me many of the same points that he does in this excellent article, “A Better Bailout,” on how we needed to structure a financial markets action plan.

Taxi to the Dark Side is going to run tonight on HBO, 9 pm EST. If you haven’t seen it, the Oscar winning documentary by Alex Gibney is a must see. Here are a few short clips of interviews I did with some of those featured in the film.

Arrived in Vienna. The airplane chatter I eavesdropped on during my Austrian Airlines flight — much of it in Russian — was about the American financial crisis.

It’s amazing that the young, talented, got-everything-he-wanted Paul Newman turned into the globally aware and socially concerned activist he became. On a number of levels, I think that Matt Damon — and even Ben Affleck — resemble at their young age Paul Newman in spirit and human conscientiousness.

I’ve been watching it over and over and over again. Words fail me in this case. What can one say when it’s so clear that Sarah Palin is not prepared for the office she is seeking.

I’m off to Europe today and will be mostly in Vienna and Salzburg. Quite pleasantly, I have been invited by the Department of State to talk about foreign policy, the elections, and the role of new media. I’ll be active on TWN but so will others on our team.

Glad Jim Lehrer started with Eisenhower and the missive that national security is a strong economy. . . Obama: And. . .and. . .and. He was halting, ineffective, and stumbling in his response on the economy. McCain: Shouts out to Kennedy.

I have a long roster of McCain statements that Obama spokesman Bill Burton just sent to me and which he says needed to be debunked. I’ve created an html document of the list here. And. . .

This is a guest post by Judd Legum, who previously served as Research Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and was a creator of “Think Progress” at the Center for American Progress. This post originally appeared at Huffington Post and is cross-posted with permission.

I have just flown back from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and am now in D.C. — about to watch the first debate showdown. On other fronts, Ted Kennedy has been taken to the hospital in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. No other news.