Links: 2009-11-06

We still want change. Hat tip Lavrenti.

Is this rally over the top yet?

Up 28% in Britain

Britain’s bottomless pit. Much worse than Lloyds

America’s bottomless pit.

This is the first real challenger to the iPhone

Good German account of the GM-Opel affair

I’m not wildly pro-FDR but this is a good take.

I wish Aaron Krowne and his gang luck. Hat tip Rolfe Winkler.

This is a PDF of FDIC guidelines on CRE loans. The directive seems to allow banks a lot of leeway in determining how to deal with NPLs. I see this as an example of allowing ‘extend and pretend’ which is how the S&L crisis proceeded.

Yes, it’s a puff piece. Read it anyway.

Bess Levin has all the gossip

This will be a source of outrage

“probably pay less than net asset value”

Good move in transparency

Are consumers coming back?

The demand must be institutional

Highest performance SATA drive. Huge too.

"very, very cool"