Finance and Economics
- FT Alphaville – Tracy Alloway – BBVA, an exercise in Spanish banking losses
- El-Erian Says Retreat in Stocks Will Worsen as Economy Slumps – Bloomberg.com
- FT Alphaville » Next to the trough…
- Harold Meyerson – A jobs lesson from the New Dealers – washingtonpost.com
- FT Alphaville » Faber lashes out — again
- Americans drank more, cheaper liquor in 2009 – MarketWatch
- BBC News – Greece ‘should not get bail-out’
- Proposal for a Moral Budget, Arnold Kling | EconLog
- Rogue Economist Rants: Questions about Chartalism
- FT.com – Spain’s official jobless tops 4m
- FT.com – SEC asks Paulson fund for information
- There is No Return to Self-Sustaining Growth: An Interview with James K. Galbraith New Deal 2.0
- BBC News – Germany will buy ‘tax evaders’ list if real
- Never short a country with $2 trillion in reserves? – Michael Pettis
- Credit Card Cleverness – James Kwak
- Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform
- Jesse’s Café Américain: Why Are 86% of the NY Fed’s MBS Purchases Occurring During Option Expiration Weeks?
- Five myths about America’s credit card debt – washingtonpost.com
Other news
- BBC News – Clare Short says cabinet misled on Iraq war legality
- Challenger Disaster Video – Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion | NYCAviation.com | Planespotting and Aviation Photography, Breaking Airline News, Aviation Discussion
- More from the "why bipartisanship can’t work" guy – James Fallows
- MacVideo – News – Apple makes $208 on each $499 iPad claims analyst
- Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?
- The Nexus One Just Got Multi-Touch
- OpenOffice tops 20% market share (Hendrik Weimer’s Quantenblog)
- Ideology: Three Deep South States Are the Most Conservative
- FT Alphaville – Tracy Alloway – Whoops! Non-bank assets on display
- TV interview catches banker looking at near-nude photos on computer | Business | guardian.co.uk