trueslant.com - 9/1/2009
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Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the nation’s biggest banks, taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that many critics thought might never be seen again. via As Biggest Banks Repay Bailout Money, the U.S. Sees a Profit – NYTimes.com . It was ...
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Tuesday links: financial innovation
Abnormal Returns —
... of endowment fund returns on donor generosity. (Felix Salmon)
The Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator edged higher. (Real Time Economics)
Bank of America (BAC) is tired of all that government oversight. (WSJ, Clusterstock)
More pushback against the notion of TARP profits. (Market Talk, Matt Taibbi)
What’s in store for the big ...
Links 9/2/09
naked capitalism —
... Strategy Revealed New York Times (hat tip reader DoctoRx)
Bartiromo Asks 44 y/o Congressman “If Medicare’s So Good, Why Aren’t You On It?!” Talking Points Memo (hat tip reader Marshall). Oh boy.
AIG CEO Benmosche Says He Wants To Halve Wall Street’s IPO Fees Bloomberg. His PR guy must have told him to bash banks to burnish his image.
Deutsche Bank scraps oil notes Financial Times (hat tip reader Michael)
Bailout Propaganda Begins Matt Taibbi (hat tip reader Reid)
Antidote du jour (hat tip reader ...
Wednesday morning links
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
TOP STORIES Bailout Propaganda Begins - True Slant US stock futures fall after jobs data - AP European, Asian Stocks Drop; Alcatel, Old Mutual, Sekisui Fall - Bloomberg 'Clunkers' program gives biggest boost to foreign carmakers - LA Times V Defies Economic Pessimists Seeing L, U, W - Bloomberg FDIC's Bair warns on commercial mortgages - Reuters What Happened to the 'Depression'? - WSJ Out of the Shadows - The New Yorker ...
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