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The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2010-01-30

By Edward Harrison on 30 January 2010

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Chart of the day: Clusterstock – How the AIG bailout worked

Breaking: Darrell Issa asks for a subpoena in AIG bailout cover-up

President Obama, are you listening?

Robert Reich gets it

Marc Faber: Obama makes Bush look like a genius

A strong dollar, euro downside and a gold liquidation panic

Poll results: Why Obama has ratcheted up the populist rhetoric

Bill Gross and the deficit ring of fire

Chanos: “We’re not calling for an impending crash of China”

Construction in China’s Ghost Towns

Rationalizing cover-ups and AIG bailouts at the Fed

Eurozone imbalances weaken trust in the euro and undermine euro area cohesion

Markets, Bernanke and the political calculus of re-nomination

The EU does have the legal power to organise bailouts

Barack Hoover Obama

Stephen Roach: Chance of Double Dip 40%

Week’s Most Popular Older Posts

Credit Crisis Timeline

Picture of the day: Cat chases bear

The top 25 European banks by assets

Bailouts: catching a falling knife

The recession is over but the depression has just begun

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Economic Data

State unemployment insurance insolvency: 50 little Hoovers

Jobless claims 470,000, average rises for 2nd week

Re-interpreting recession dating committee’s double-dip language for debt deflation dynamics

GDP up 5.7%, fastest rate since 2003

December’s FDIC cease and desist and other administrative orders

Bread & Circus specials

The fat cats’ wet noodles

15 years on: the Cantona Kung-Fu kick seen round the world

Constitutional Convention Updated

Chris Matthews on Obama’s SOTU : “I forgot he was black”

Fighting against your shadow

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