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Links 10/1/09
naked capitalism —
Children’s writer Philip Pullman ranked second on US banned books list Guardian
New Profit Center For Australian McDonald’s: Fraud [Cannot Has Cheezburger] Consumerist
CHART OF THE DAY: What, You Think The Savings Rate Can’t Go Higher? Clusterstock
Krugman and the pied pipers of debt Rolfe Winkler
The Zero Hedgies Felix Salmon
World Bank to buy distressed assets Financial Times
Q&A: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wrangling Wall Street’s C.E.O.s Vanity Fair (hat tip John ...
Thursday links: downward drift
Abnormal Returns —
... Is the point of most financial innovation to obfuscate risk? (Felix Salmon also EconLog)
What would a Goldman Sachs (GS)-Wachovia tie-up have looked like? (Vanity Fair also FT Alphaville)
Andrew Ross Sorkin on just how crucial the Mitsubishi investment was for Morgan Stanley (MS) and Wall Street in general. (Vanity Fair)
Ken Lewis is out. Who would want to be CEO of ...
What Really Happened a Year Ago on Wall St.
DealBook —
... itself to JPMorgan Chase for $1 per share. The revelations appear in an excerpt in Vanity Fair’s November issue from Mr. Sorkin’s upcoming book, “Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves,” which comes out on Oct. 20. A link to the excerpt went up yesterday on Vanity Fair’s Web site, which also has a question-and-answer session with Mr. Sorkin about the book. Go to Book Excerpt from Vanity Fair » Go to Q&A from VF.com »
