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Doug Kass's 20 Surprises for 2010: Goldman Private, Gold Tumbles, etc. Feminomics: A Woman’s Place - Still in the (Poor) House » New Deal 2.0 Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Fictional Reserve Lending And The Myth Of Excess…

Light posting today.  There may be more tonight. Citigroup ‘Lottery Ticket’ May Pay U.S. Lowest Return - Bloomberg.com Fed's approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis - washingtonpost.com interfluidity » Norms of credit…

DC – Winters (a historical perspective of winters in Washington as we have seen record snowfall the past two days) NBA Player Fined $7,500 for a Tweet - Mashable The filibuster: let's talk about it - James Fallows Managers chief…

Risk, reward and responsibility: The financial sector and society | vox The financial crisis and Europe’s financial trilemma | vox Good Thing the U.S. is Getting Into Commercial Real Estate - Paul Kedrosky The Fed Can Help, But Fiscal…

Most Read Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Big Sellout The phony Senate health care reform bill Video: Ron Paul on Bernanke as Person of the Year Bank collapse in Austria brings debt in Eastern Europe center stage Standard Bank says…

I will be out for most of the day, so posting may be light.  Tonight it will snow in DC and we may get a foot by Sunday. I hear it has snowed in London too. Exciting stuff. Pain in Spain (not mostly on the plain) Pain in Spain -…

Strategic Default interfluidity » Strategic default and the duty to shareholders Luxury-Home Owners in U.S. Use Short Sales as Defaults Rise - Bloomberg.com    interfluidity » Strategic default: a soldier’s…

Philly Fed factory activity at 4-1/2 year high | Reuters Democrats' Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll - WSJ.com BBC News - Irish Republic out of recession as GDP grows BBC News - Citigroup shares sale planned by US government…

Steven Pearlstein - Out from under TARP, banks are now free to fail again - washingtonpost.com France Matches U.K. With 50 Percent Bonus Tax - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com FT.com - End bankruptcy priority for derivatives, repos…

The importance of attractiveness depends on where you live - Science Daily Howard Dean: Health Care Bill 'Bigger Bailout for Insurance Industry Than AIG' - ABC News Google Contacts Can Kill Duplicates in Bulk - Lifehacker…