Financial News: 2009-12-13
- Thoughts on the Late Paul Samuelson, Arnold Kling | EconLog
- Bruce Krasting: Cocktails and RE in Greenwich
- America is angry, but Wall Street’s bankers are still living the high life |Business |The Observer
- Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin | Book review |Books |The Observer
- Pushed too far: how Labour lost patience with the banks |Business |The Observer
The taxes on bank bonuses are very interesting. The Guardian seems in favour whereas the Telegraph is against – as one would expect. All of the big issues – fairness, taxes, plutocracy, role of banks and government – are on display here. This is a situation worth watching.
- Economist’s View: "We Face a Real Challenge in Dealing with that Feeling that the Crisis is Over"
- Cowen earns more than Brown and Merkel despite pay cut – Independent.ie
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Valley Capital Bank, National Association, Mesa, AZ
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for SolutionsBank, Overland Park, KS
- FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for Republic Federal Bank, N.A., Miami, FL
- FT.com – Wolfgang Munchau – European farce descends into Greek tragedy
- A hungover Celtic Tiger | Roy Foster |Comment is free |The Guardian
- FiveThirtyEight: Greg Mankiw, Stimulus Critic: So Wrong He’s Actually Right
Distraction of the Day: Grand jury indicts 98-year old woman of killing 100-year old woman
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