Early Feb 9 Headlines

• Stimulus package contemplates total $9.7 trillion of U.S. Taxpayer money (Bloomberg)
• How government, not Lehman, created the financial crisis (WSJ)
• Step by step guide to stimulus bill's life over next few days (Reuters)
• How banks will likely lose $8 billion on Lyondell bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
• Barclays proudly discusses how it got away with daylight robbery of Lehman assets (Bloomberg)
• Bond investors calling the Fed's bluff (Naked Capitalism)
• Will GM and Chrysler finally be put out of their misery? (Bloomberg)
• Blankfein doing the media spin on MTM while hoarding Level 3 (Bloomberg)
• Bailout plan will rely on private money (NYT)
• Appliance maker Whirlpool with big Q4 revenue miss (Bloomberg)