Best of the Week: November 22-28, 2009

10. Half of Banks' Losses May Be Unknown: IMF Chief -- Reuters and An Upturn in the Housing Market May Be Reversing -- David Streitfeld & Javier C. Hernandez and One in Four Borrowers Is Underwater -- Ruth Simon & James R. Hagerty and Late Card Payments Rose in October, Moody’s Reports -- Peter Eichenbaum and Economists React: Payback to Come in Existing-Home Sales? -- Real Time Economics

9. Welcome to the Luladinejad Axis -- Pepe Escobar

8. Triumph of the Turks -- Owen Matthews & Christopher Dickey and Turkey's Radioactive Waltz with Russia Ends -- Taylan Bilgic

7. The Right Fix for the Fed -- Ben Bernanke

6. How Can We Help the World’s Poor? -- Nicholas D. Kristof

5. Forced Labour and Rape, the New Face of Slavery in America -- Paul Harris

4. Why They Hate Us (I): Lessons from Civil War Reconstruction -- Stephen M. Walt

3. The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care -- Jerry Adler & Jeneen Interlandi and Shopping Around for the Best Prices in Medical Care -- Walecia Konrad

2. A Failure To Explain Financial Benefits of Health Care Reform -- Thomas F. Schaller and Health Care Rationing, American-Style -- Uwe E. Reinhardt

1. US Was 'Hell Bent' on Iraq War, UK Envoy Says -- David Stringer and UK Hearing Reveals US Pondered Iraq Invasion in Early 2001 -- Maya Schenwar and Leaked UK Documents Detail Iraq War Chaos -- David Stringer

BONUS: They Chose Celebrity -- Ross Douthat and Why Women Can’t Let Sarah Palin Go -- Lisa Belkin