peHUB First Read

* Trying to convince your "Main Street" pals to support the bailout? Here's a compelling argument. * Of course, the bailout plan we've all come to know is not the same one being voted on by the Senate today. I'm not so much talking about raising the FDIC cap, so much as this: "The legislation also includes a 'Mental Health Parity' provision, which would require health insurance companies to cover mental illness at parity with physical illness." I totally support that provision... in a different bill. * Buyout firms are having a very tough time finding leveraged loans, which often leaves mezzanine debt as the next best thing. * Surviving the credit crisis: A guide for entrepreneurs. * Calcanis on startup depression. Wilson chimes in. * Economist Joe Stiglitz on the worst case scenario.