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Links: 2010-01-19

By Edward Harrison on 19 January 2010

Finance and Economy

FT.com / Columnists / Philip Stephens – How the big banks rigged the market

FT.com – A bank levy will not stop the doomsday cycle

Economic Perspectives from Kansas City: Sheila Bair Exposes Wall Street’s Power Grab: Angelides Commission Hearings, days 1 and 2

Rick Bookstaber: Breaking the Banks

Wall St. Weighs Legal Challenge to Proposed Bank Tax – NYTimes.com

Paul Krugman – What Didn’t Happen – NYTimes.com

Latvia in economic abyss | balticreports.com

Kobe marks anniversary of deadly 1995 quake | The Japan Times Online

Economist warns against China bashing from Washington over trade – Xinhua

FT.com – Merryn Somerset Webb: China’s going the way of Spain, Ireland and Japan

New emails show AIG mulled bank payment disclosures| Reuters

Jesse’s Cafe Americain: Franklin Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address: A Fitting Reminder For Our Crisis Today

Politics and Social

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: 538 Model Posits Brown as 3:1 Favorite

FBI broke law in phone searches: report | Reuters

The Guantnamo Suicides: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle – Scott Horton – Harper’s Magazine

Fear Rules – Paul Craig Roberts

Bacteria are more capable of complex decision-making than thought

How sunlight causes skin cells to turn cancerous

Rape Victims Vs. Prison Rape Victims – The Sexist – Washington City Paper

Governor’s plan for prisons ignores racial history – Sacramento Opinion – Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

Barack Obama’s first year: Reality bites | The Economist

Technology

Ending Our Advertising Relationship With BigDeal – Tech Crunch

United States Internet Speed is on the Decline [REPORT]

Apple moves to ban Nokia selling iPhone in America – Telegraph

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