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Tuesday Links: Donations, WSJ Short-Arm, Goldie’s Corporate Welfare

Steve Outing, like me, likes the idea of asking readers for donations. He just thinks The Miami Herald is going... More

Sorkin Is Good on TARP Payback Fees

Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column in the Times today looking at how bankers are making money off their... More

The Journal’s Citigroup Hacker Story

The Wall Street Journal's fascinating scoop this morning on Russian hackers stealing tens of millions of dollars from Citigroup is... More

Monday Links: Brass Replica, CDFI Funding, Reuters Caves?

The Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman, with a new book out on a guy who made billions betting against subprime,... More

The Post on Where the Fed Went Wrong

It's good for Ben Bernanke that his re-confirmation as Federal Reserve chief is all but assured, because the Washington Post... More

LAT’s Kristof Keeps an Eye on the Overdraft Racket

The press too often loses interest in a story once some change is done to appease the restive, however incomplete... More

Bloomberg Scoop on Twitter’s Search Engine Payday

We finally know how much Twitter got paid by Google and Microsoft's Bing to index its content: $25 million. Bloomberg... More

Friday Links: Under the TARP. WaPo Results, Shadow Space

The Wall Street Journal does some solid reporting on the machinations behind the TARP exits. This is interesting: Some Citigroup... More

Walk the Line or Walk Away?

Blogworld's got an interesting back-and-forth going on about the morality of walking away from a mortgage. I've got to admit,... More

Going Beyond Glass-Steagall II

John McCain is getting all mavericky again. He's now on board for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the breakup of... More

Thursday Links: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Fan/Fred, Tablets

I've suggested this for a good while now, only half in jest, and now The Miami Herald is doing it:... More

More on Why We Won’t Tax Banker Bonuses

Nobody loves a critic, they say, and from my experience at The Audit it's mostly true. So I love it... More

Deficit Reduction and Windfall Taxes

There a number of reasons for instituting a windfall tax on bankers, and they've been most ably spelled out by... More

Wednesday Links: SEC and CDOs, Meyerson, Wasted Crisis

Here's more ammo for the just-blow-up-the-SEC-and-start-again crowd: NPR's Planet Money and ProPublica report on a questionnaire sent to CDO market... More

WaPo on (Another) U.S. Giveaway to Citi

(UPDATE: I originally said in the headline and lede that the Post had a scoop here. That's not right. The... More

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