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• Fiat Money Gets A Bad Rap

  
  The Art Neuro Weblog — Authority: 126
  The Gold Standard Sucks For sometime, I’ve been wrestling for a good argument in favor of fiat money. A lot of people think the Gold Standard was something great and that the subsequent devaluation of the US dollar has somehow contributed to the current crises. Clearly the issues of ratings agencies and ...
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• "Investment banking is a demanding job. “Rainmakers” typically work long hours under high stress. Yet..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 143
  “ Investment banking is a demanding job. “Rainmakers” typically work long hours under high stress. Yet the number of highly qualified graduates from top colleges eager to enter investment banking has typically far exceeded the demand. Why hasn’t the excess of supply over demand failed to drive earnings down? ...
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• Bank Failures Rise to 123

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 561
  The only thing which will stop bank failures from rising in 2009 is 12:00:01 am, January 1st, 2010 : Regulators shut down two banks in Florida and one in California on Friday, boosting to 123 the number of U.S. bank failures this year as loan defaults rise in the worst financial climate in decades. Its. Not. ...
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• The Future of Australian Television – Taxation, Licensing, Advertising or Criminalization?

  
  Perceptric Forum — Authority: 518
  Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it wouldappear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by yousharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you verymuch”.   We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss howto criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These same ...
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• Honest Services From Bankers? Increasingly Not Likely

  
  Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places — Authority: 699
  Once you understand what financial services are, you’ll quickly come to realize that American consumers are not getting the honest services that they have come to expect from banks. A bank is a business. They offer financial services for profit. Their primary function is to keep money for individual people or ...
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• Intellectual Hazard

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 135
  Moral hazard, which basically amounts to a personal incentive to do something unfair to someone else, is a familiar concept in the world of law and economics. A new paper on the financial crisis explores a parallel concept, "intellectual hazard", which is similar to the concept of "cognitive capture" in ...
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• The Cassandra Awards

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 558
  Among economists, Robert Shiller and Nouriel Roubini have been rightly lauded for warning of the current crisis. I’d like to give some legal scholars their due for being way ahead of the curve on the issues in the financial crisis. This isnt anywhere near an exclusive list, just some of the work that is sitting ...
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• Next Bailout Candidate

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 490
  And the winner is...The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)! Lest it be forgotten, as the article duly notes: The FHA and the government-sponsored housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac currently provide about 90 per cent of all new mortgages in the US housing market. From The Financial Times: Defaults ...
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• Fannie and Freddie: Let’s Try The Honor System

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Well at least the government -subsidized mortgage industry is efficacious and legally astute in one respect.  The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim has this investigative report on Fannie Me and Freddie Mac getting rid of its own inspector general : There is no independent auditor overseeing the federal agency ...
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• Mike Huckabee book tour, November 13, 2009, Charlotte NC, Governor Huckabee tours 60 cities, A Simple Christmas, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Large crowd

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  Governor Mike Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008 and is a regular on Fox TV, appeared at a book signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Charlotte, NC, today, Friday, November 13, 2009. I spoke briefly to Governor Huckabee and he is just as nice in person as he is on TV. A large crowd stood in line for the signing ...
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• What Came First: The Federal Reserve Or Economic Bubbles? A Brief History Of The Federal Reserves Creation

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  A fantastic history of the reasons for, and the creation of, the Federal Reserve, courtesy of Murray Rothbard and our friends at Mises Institute , with the article originally appearing in Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 3–51. It is also reprinted in A History of Money and ...
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• Wall Street Faces ‘Live Ammo’ as Congress Aims to Unravel Banks - Bloomberg.com

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 143
  Wall Street Faces ‘Live Ammo’ as Congress Aims to Unravel Banks - Bloomberg.com : continuum : Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorski’s staff that his plan to dismantle large financial firms was a bad idea.
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• The financial crisis

  
  Mercury Rising ?? — Authority: 548
  Christian Menegatti and Elisa Parisi-Capone have a very important article at RGE Monitor, which I’m unfortunately unable to share in any detail. However, the basic ideas have been discussed extensively in other fora. First, an alarmingly high number of banks are “ zombies ,” kept in business only through the ...
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• How Much Impact Do Zoning Laws Have?

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 135
  Do zoning laws really have much of an impact? In my experience, developers who want to build in undeveloped or blighted areas not zoned for a proposed project are often effective in securing zoning law changes. Zoning laws may stifle innovation and change in more prosperous, already developed areas. But, most of ...
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• Rich still too richly compensated according to richest of them all

  
  money news blog — Authority: 142
  Filed under: Competitive strategy , Microsoft (MSFT) , Financial Crisis It’s simple to save the world when you’ve already taken care of yourself. But, we rely on these mavericks — the wealthy who realize they have the ability to make a difference — to do what we can’t on our own. So, it comes as a ...
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• Krugman Channels Merkel?

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 568
  As I recall Paul Krugman was very critical of the Germans in the early days of the recession. I believe his criticism went something like this: the Germans need to get on board a pan-European proposal to staunch the bleeding caused by the financial crisis. I could be wrong, but I dont think so. So what happened? ...
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• Warning: Fed May Cause Next Crisis, Hong Kong’s Tsang Suggests

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a9xbDq__Y7v4 Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve’s policy of keeping interest rates near zero is fueling a wave of speculative capital that may cause the next global crisis, Hong Kong’s leader said. “I’m scared and leaders should look out,” ...
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• Chanos & Sloan: Lessons from the crisis

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 437
  In this video, Jim Chanos, legendary hedge fund manager of Kynikos Associates, and Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, discuss lessons learned from the financial crisis. (Also see my recent post “Jim Chanos: Ten lessons from the financial crisis” .) Source: CNBC , November 12, 2009.
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• Chinese Racism, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Power, Andrew Sullivan’s Catholicism, America’s Decline (?), and Megan Fox’s Savvy Self-Creation

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  Chinese Racism . Reiham Salam posits that China’s ethnocentrism will retard it’s development into a superpower – especially given the demographic obstacles it is facing thanks to it’s One Child Policy. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Power . Gabriel Sherman describes the world of Andrew Ross Sorkin, star financial ...
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• Albert Edwards still uber-bearish, calls for new lows in 2010

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 437
  The post below is republished courtesy of Trader Mark, writer of the Fund My Mutual Fund blog (hat tip: Damien Hoffman of Wall St Cheat Sheet ). Societe Generale’s Albert Edwards is generally considered an uber bear, although there were times in the past year he has tactically increased exposure to equities to ...
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