Get Out Tonight!: Robert Shiller Explains It All

(...if by "all" you mean the housing crisis.)

We'd love to make some sort of pithy comment about the state of the economy or the proposed bailout, but truth is, we can't keep up: McCain's "heroic" suspension of his campaign to photo-op and take credit for the bailout appears to be going belly-up, again, after the markets bounced up before close a couple hours ago assuming a bailout was agreed upon, but that was before conservative Republicans drafted their own alternative, which is cheaper, and, given McCain's possible embrace of it, might lead to a continued meltdown of the markets tomorrow.

Yet most people still don't know what the hell's going on, let alone what should be done about it. If you're one of them, you need to head to Town Hall tonight, where Yale economist Robert Shiller is appearing in support of his new book The Subprime Solution.

Shiller isn't just anyone with a book to pitch; he's one of the leading experts on bubble economies, the author of the definitive work on the dot-com bust, Irrational Exuberance, and, amongst other things, the "Shiller" of the Case-Shiller index, the leading barometer of US home prices, obsessively followed by our pals over at SeattleBubble.com.

7:30 p.m. // Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Avenue // $5