G-20 Financial Reform Efforts Update
- Osborne tries to put the brakes on banking reform – Telegraph
- Obama pushes U.S. bank tax – National Post
The Usual Fare
- Bill to Extend Unemployment Benefits Dies – WSJ.com
- BBC News – Why China’s currency has two names
- BBC News – Romania plans big VAT rise to secure bail-out funds
- Double-Dip Recession Is Unlikely – Barrons.com
- Marina Bay Sands resort opens in Singapore | Mail Online
- Paul Krugman – The Renminbi Runaround – NYTimes.com
- BP: Gulf Resident Gives Behind the Scenes Account, Slams Cleanup and Safety « naked capitalism
- Jürgen Klinsmann says England are Germany’s World Cup inspiration | Football | The Guardian
- World Cup 2010: Lack of top-class England keepers perplexes Oliver Kahn | Football | guardian.co.uk
Bank Failure Friday
- FDIC: Press Releases – First American Bank, Artesia, New Mexico, Assumes All of the Deposits of High Desert State Bank, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- FDIC: Press Releases – Premier American Bank, Miami, Florida, Assumes All of the Deposits of Peninsula Bank, Englewood, Florida
- FDIC: Press Releases – The Savannah Bank, National Association, Savannah, Georgia, Assumes All of the Deposits of First National Bank Savannah, Georgia