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Failure Friday
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Wheatland Bank, Naperville, IL
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Peotone Bank and Trust Company, Peotone, IL
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Lincoln Park Savings Bank, Chicago, IL
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for New Century Bank, Chicago, IL
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Citizens Bank&Trust Company of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Broadway Bank, Chicago, IL
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Amcore Bank, National Association, Rockford, IL
Economy and Finance
- 15 Ways To Spot A Bubble
- IKB, credit-crunch chump: The bigger fools | The Economist
- Portugal’s economy: The importance of not being Greece | The Economist
- Goldman Sachs e-mails
- Our Giant Banking Crisis—What to Expect | The New York Review of Books
- SEC’s Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs – WSJ.com
- Bail-out money will buy Greece only a year – Telegraph
- Several Fed Members Favor Selling Mortgage Assets Soon – CNBC
- Goldman CDO man wrote How I caused credit crunch | Reuters
- Senator Blanche Lincoln’s Derivatives Reform Bill Must Pass – Randall Wray
- How Goldman Sachs Screwed Ghana | Business News 2010-04-21
- Banyan: Bloody shirts in the city of angels | The Economist
- Oil Spill From Rig Blast Is 10 Miles Wide, U.S. Says – Bloomberg.com
Technology
- How Facebook is putting its users last | Molly Rants – CNET News
- Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses • The Register
Foreign-language
- "Para prestar dinero a Grecia tenemos que pedir prestado porque no hay" – Libertad Digital
- El partido gubernamental alemán exige que Grecia abandone el euro
- Le Figaro – Conjoncture : L’aide du FMI ne sera pas immédiate
Other news
- Tiger Woods’s Inconvenient Women | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
- BBC News – Police among seven killed in Mexico shoot-out
- BBC News – Arizona signs tough immigration bill despite criticism
- Guest Blog: Why soldiers get a kick out of killing
- Dreaming and Remembering : The Frontal Cortex
- Lawsuit: Hotel Obliged Guest’s Requests For Whites-Only Service – The Consumerist
- Roethlisberger Replaced by Lemieux in Pittsburgh Zoo Display – Bloomberg.com
- Man put on ‘no-fly list’ while in air to NYC – Security- msnbc.com
- Why Women Find Their Parents Unpleasant – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com