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Most Read Chart of the day: Clusterstock – How the AIG bailout worked Breaking: Darrell Issa asks for a subpoena in AIG bailout cover-up President Obama, are you listening? Robert Reich gets it Marc Faber: Obama makes…

Most Read Corporate bond yields demonstrate that risk is back Jim Rogers is still bullish on commodities Readers of this blog expect the recession to last redux So what are banks for, anyway? Grading Obama’s economic policy…

Most Read Readers of this blog expect the recession to last redux The housing bubble: In Bernanke's defense? Obama: The Transactional President John Mauldin: 2010 Forecast: The Year of Uncertainty Randall Wray: Fire…

Most Read Byron Wien: Ten Surprises for 2010 More on Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2010 Definition of terms The Democratic Party meltdown of 2010 Geithner urged AIG to withhold information Leading a reader to water…

Most Read Why the Federal reserve wants to drain excess reserves Case-Shiller ekes out gain despite decline in 12 of 20 markets Humans are built to be hypocritical Double dip recession and the perverse math of GDP reporting…

As we head into the New Year, I am trying to look back at the last one with some semblance of a coherent interpretation of events that leads to a strategic vision of the future.  I have already touched on stimulus, kleptocracy and…

Before the Christmas break, I wrote a post to tie together my thoughts on why I have found the Obama economic program so unsatisfying despite some obvious success in stabilizing the economy. This first part framed the status quo as an…

Most Read Video: Goldman and Morgan Stanley were this close to bankruptcy Think outside the box: ten outrageous predictions for 2010 Moving away from stimulus happy talk to focus on malinvestment Bernanke doesn’t understand the…

Yesterday, I indicated I would write a few thematic posts as a look back at some of the more important economic topics that this credit crisis has uncovered. Tying posts together in a theme definitely gives a better holistic view of a the…

As we approach the new year, I have decided to write a few thematic posts as a look back at some of the more important economic topics that this credit crisis has uncovered. The thinking is that tying posts together in a theme might give a…