ft.com - 7/11/2009
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Published: July 10 2009 19:52 | Last updated: July 10 2009 19:52 Looking for a souvenir of the credit crisis? The Museum of American Finance, located on Wall Street, sells a set of five posters from its credit crisis exhibit. EDITOR’S CHOICE In depth: Global financial crisis - Sep-04 In depth: ...
ft.com - 7/4/2009
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ft.com —
The planned merger of two Japanese banks is
the latest unhappy chapter in the 10-year saga of...
foreign private equity capital’s adventure in Tokyo finance. The two banks, Shinsei and Aozora fell into the hands of Ripplewood and Chris Flowers and ...
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hf-implode.com - 7/16/2009
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hf-implode.com —
Lee Adler, Russ Winter, and Aaron Krowne discuss
the CIT collapse, Calpers suit against the ratings agencies,...
the impact of the lack of accountability, and the outlook for the stock market.
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Radio Free Wall Street 7/16/09
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naked capitalism —
... bonanza could stoke anger Reuters. Duh! Failure of a Fail-Safe Strategy Sends Investors Scrambling Wall Street Journal Haiku Economics Mark Thoma. Um, this is economists simply doing an older and therefore more upscale version of Twitter. Although I actually do like haiku. Did a productivity slowdown cause the financial crisis? David Brackfield, Joaquim Oliveira Martins VoxEU. Any readers who want to have fun with this, be my guest. On Wall Street: Credit crisis is far from over Aline van Duyn, Financial Times ...
Links for Saturday Morning
Across the Curve —
... in Congress will propose a tax on the wealthiest Americans to fund health care reform. As one Republican Congressman notes,it is a pretty wacky idea with unemployment at nearly double digits and the economy having just flirted with financial Armageddon.
It also, even more so than any other action of the last two years, marks the death,demise and destruction of the conservative ethic which has guided American politics since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968.
Green shoots or weeds?
Robert Reich via Calculated Risk on when the recovery will ...
Related: on wall street: credit crisis is far from over
Failing Upwards: The Wall Street White House
ritholtz.com 7/7/2009 — We are seeing belated glimmers of understanding of the credit crisis from the White House. Still nothing on the Ratings Agencies, and Glass Steagall, and too little on Derivatives and leverage, but at least there seems to be some recognition on TBTF ...
Why Should You Care If Economists Raise U.S. Outlook ? —
The Big Picture
Look, let’s not beat around the bush: Wall Street economists, as a group, well, they suck.
Most of them did not see the crisis coming; many were deep in denial about the recession long after it started. They missed the housing boom and bust, the credit crisis. They continued to see ...
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