Lunchtime Links (June 30, 2009)
GE Is Largest Beneficiary of FDIC-Backed Debt in Bank Rescue Program
Paper Avalanche Buries Plan to Stem Foreclosures
Pretty Boy Paulson And The Goldman Gang
Christine Romer Is a Completely Clueless Keynesian
Germany's PM Merkel Pushes For Tax Cuts Despite Massive Deficits
Duke University Social Services Administrator Charged With Molestation of His Adopted Son
Sears to Let Jobless Stop Payments. Keep Appliances
Rules May Limit Cash For Clunkers
$235 Billion in CMBS About to Get Chopped
Foreclosure Short Sales Now Come with a Heavy Cost
Duck Cell Phone Ringtone Interrupts Obama News Conference
Computer Failures Probed in Air France Airbus A-330 Crash
Sadly, Another Airbus Has Crashed
Chinese Banks Are A Looming Disaster
There are a dozen more links inside.
Only The Already Employed Need Apply
Supreme Court Says States Can Now Prosecute National Banks (Go Cuomo)
$1 Million Dollar McMansions Next to Crash
For Modest Earners, Help For Student Loans
JPMorgan Joins Citigroup and BAC in Massively Increasing Employee Pay
Feeding From The Government Teat
Awesome Bill Fleckenstein on the NAR and Appraisal Controversy
More on the Appraisal Controversy
Thoughts on Bernanke's Performance
Geithner Finally Does Something Right (ht to Polish)
Financial Crisis: Who's to Blame? Ritholtz Lists His 1 thru 30
Reader Comments (2)
Credit (I mean Carbon) Default Swaps...Janet Tavakoli, please write about this problem peering over the horizon. Ms. Tavakoli, Janet, you make the financial meltdown even hotter!
Janet gets The Daily Bail by email so perhaps she will read your compliment. She sent me an interview she did about Buffett recently. I enjoyed it and may post it.