Sunday Night Reading (May 15, 2010)

Links are inside to save space on the front page.  Take a guess at how much bailout-enhanced cash Lloyd Blankfein is spending on his new Manhattan digs.

At The SEC Not Everyone Loves Warren Buffett

Conservatives Blast McConnell For Voting 'No' On Audit The Fed Amendment

Lloyd Blankfein Dropped $26 Million In CASH On New Apartment

SEC Chief On Goldman Case: "I Have Serious Doubts About The Evidence Of Fraud"

US faces one of biggest budget crunches in world – IMF

Greece May Take Legal Steps Against U.S. Banks for Crisis, Papandreou Says

Volcker Rule has New Life (FT)

Major Loophole In Senate Financial Reform Bill, Derivatives Reform May Be Illusory

Health Care Reform Already Costs $100 Billion MORE Than We Thought It Would

Get Ready To Taste The Bitter Side Of Keynesian Economics

A Credit Union That Played With Fire

FANTASY: Germany Wants Currency Block Without France (Ambrose Evans)

‘Mummy’ Merkel battered as Germans lose faith in EU

ECB: $1 trillion rescue package only buys time

Euro Falls to Lowest Level Since Lehman Collapse as Breakup Concern Grows

Venezuela's Chavez orders takeover of iron-makers

South Korea Fires Warning Shots After North Korean Ships Enter Its Waters

Marco Rubio says country relying too much on government

Update: Gore tells graduates, protestors that climate change is "unfinished business"

Pill-Popping Pitbull Needs Viagra to Live

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Comments

[DailyBail]

Palin, Jenny Sanford help underdog in SC gov race

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100515/ap_on_el_gu/us_sc_candidate_sisterhood

[DailyBail]

Thai gov't rejects talks, defends deadly crackdown

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_re_as/as_thailand_politics;_ylt=Am.pKE1lASsaqHr9HX84Imhv24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTM5c21nNHIyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTE2L2FzX3RoYWlsYW5kX3BvbGl0aWNzBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2Jhbmdrb2tmaWdodA--

[DailyBail]

Poll: Only a third want own lawmakers back

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100515/D9FNAUV00.html

[DailyBail]

Empire State Manufacturing index slides

http://www.forexlive.com/106995/all/empire-state-manufacturing-index-slides

[DailyBail]

OMG: GM Wants To Get Back Into Financing, Says Shortage Of Subprime Lending Is Holding Back Sales

http://www.businessinsider.com/gm-wants-more-subprime-lending-2010-5#ixzz0oCUchPoS

[DailyBail]

Major Chinese Bank Advisor Rips Wall Street's Barbarism And Calls For Asia-Wide Investigations

http://www.businessinsider.com/major-chinese-bank-advisor-rips-wall-streets-barbarism-and-calls-for-asia-wide-investigations-2010-5#ixzz0oCUlHiFg

[DailyBail]

Oliver Stone: Bankers Are Too Heartless To Understand "Wall Street 2"

http://www.businessinsider.com/oliver-stone-thinks-bankers-are-too-heartless-to-understand-wall-street-2-2010-5#ixzz0oCWADGxt

[S. Gompers]

I love the wallstreet pro clips.

[JTS]

http://www.businessinsider.com/gm-wants-more-subprime-lending-

Stupid me i sen the tv ad were they paid the gov back everything, LOL
Now this i could write a book on.People upside down on cars .

[Zarathustra]

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES...

UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA

BERKELEY, Calif. -- UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package -- cotton swabs for a DNA sample.

In the past, incoming freshman and transfer students have received a rather typical welcome book from the College of Letters and Science's "On the Same Page" program, but this year the students will be asked for more.

The students will be asked to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the students own records.

[RecoverylessRecovery]

If Einstein were alive TODAY in Mobamba's Amerikenya, he would probably FLEE back to Germany faster than you can say "e=mc2"