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Asking For Orange Juice On American Airlines May Violate Federal Law - The Consumerist High Schools Battle For More Than Football Title : NPR A Reckless Health Care Bill That Nobody Believes In - WSJ.com U.S. Voters Oppose…

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…

Hat tip Prieur du Plessis. Source Tom Toles – Washington Post, 21 Dec 2009.

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…

I believe climate change is coming and peak oil is upon us. But I have to post the video below anyway. I remind you, this is pure propaganda: Goebbels, anyone? Kind of ironic, isn’t it? But, I love how this scene from “Der Untergang” can…

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…

Here's Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. In this episode, bad weather prevents CEOs of the three biggest financial institutions from attending a meeting with President Obama.

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…