Don't look now, but Eliot Spitzer's back: well, sort of. This week the disgraced ex-New York governor and attorney general penned his first regular column for Slate, arguing against financial firm bailouts. While Spitzer doesn't target the mutual fund industry in this first column, '40 Act execs shouldn't breathe easy yet: the Associated Press reports that Spitzer will post columns on a semi-monthly basis for the online magazine, and the subject matter, according to Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg, will predictably focus on the financial crisis, government and regulation.

This isn't Spitzer's first foray into column-writing: last month Slate's parent, the Washington Post, published a guest column from Spitzer called 'How to Ground the Street' (see MFWire, November 17, 2008). 

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