Charlie Rose sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss the global economic crisis and the players who inhabited the story. Ross Sorkin is an award-winning American journalist and author of a new book Too Big to Fail. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and is the newspaper’s chief mergers and acquisitions reporter. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service, published by The Times. Ross Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances; at the time he started writing for the paper, he hadn’t yet graduated from high school.

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Source: Charlie Rose, October 19, 2009.

This post provides links to a number of thought-provoking articles I have read over the past few days that you may also find interesting.

• Byron Wien (Financial Times): Focus on big ideas for the best chance of future returns, September 15, 2009. For some time now I have wondered why investors spend so much time trying to anticipate small changes in corporate performance or economic activity, when it is the big shifts that provide the greatest opportunity to make serious money. Perhaps it is easier to figure out whether a company’s quarterly earnings are going to beat the estimates of security analysts or whether the monthly unemployment rate will be higher or lower than expected, but I believe it is better to spend your time trying to think through important trend changes and then waiting them out.

• Andrew Ross Sorkin (The New York