Topic of the Day: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Unfinished business | The Economist
- America’s housing market: Unnecessary evils | The Economist
- Why We Have Freddie and Fannie, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Topic #2: Prisons and America
- Rough justice in America: Too many laws, too many prisoners | The Economist
- Penal reform in South Carolina: Prisons full, coffers empty | The Economist
- Felon Criminals and Disfranchisement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Trading prisoners in the Low Countries: It’s a deal | The Economist
The Usual Fare
- When Denying Loan Mods, Loan Servicers Often Blame Investors—Wrongly – ProPublica
- FT Alphaville » Moody’s tires of Hungary, Hungary tires of austerity
- Obama should be pro-market, not pro-business | James Pethokoukis
- Fed Holds Mortgage Securities and a Dilemma – NYTimes.com
- BBC News – BP accused of ‘buying academic silence’
- Banks Paid $1.6 Billion in Excessive Bonuses, Official to Say – NYTimes.com
- California foreclosures: Mortgage defaults fall to three-year low – latimes.com
- Better housing fights cancer in mice – The Scientist
- The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs | Wired Science | Wired.com
- The Advantages of Being Helpless: Scientific American
- FT.com – Martin Feldstein – A double dip is a price worth paying
- Slovenia’s biggest bank will fail stress test, admits PM | Business | The Guardian
- Guest Blog: Frans de Waal on the human primate: Strength is weakness – Scientific American
- G.M. Buys a Subprime Lender for $3.5 Billion – NYTimes.com