by Calculated Risk on 10/12/2015 09:27:00 AM

Columbus Day 2008 was a crazy time ... A few headlines on my blog from Monday, October 13, 2008:

• Paulson to Meet with Bank CEOs Today

The 3 p.m. meeting is being called while most of the banking chiefs are in Washington for meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Invited to attend were banking executives including Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group; John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley; and Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup.

... one person familiar with the matter said Secretary Paulson is expected to discuss details of his new plan to take equity stakes in financial firms ...

• Federal Reserve and other central banks announce unlimited liquidity

In order to provide broad access to liquidity and funding to financial institutions, the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) are jointly announcing further measures to improve liquidity in short-term U.S. dollar funding markets.

• Foreclosures in Orange County

MDA DataQuick, in a special report prepared for the Orange County Register, found that as of early September there were more than 3,300 unsold foreclosures in the county. DataQuick looked at all foreclosures for the year ended in June, and checked to see how many had resold. It found 40 percent were unsold.

• Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Economics Prize