TBTF
"The Too Big to Fail Subsidy is Negative Ten Billion Dollars, Says Goldman Sachs"
dealbreaker.com
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Hoarders
Corporate America's hoarding more and more cash, even as the economy improves
bloomberg.com
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EU Mess
Rogoff: Fixing the eurozone crisis will require massive writedowns of debt
project-syndicate.org
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Yikes
Dairy farmers are drowning in Greek yogurt's acidic byproduct
modernfarmer.com
Discussion
Reuters
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UBS whistleblower gets $104 million reward, while serving 40-month sentence for felony conviction
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Meet the conservative Texas billionaire who's, by far, the election's biggest campaign contributor
online.wsj.com
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Obama's largest recent donors include JPMorgan, Goldman employees
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BP has quietly returned to paying millions to influence legislation on Capitol Hill
huffingtonpost.com
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Arianna Huffington:
2 years after the Gulf oil spill, BPs influence peddling in Congress bears fruit @samsteinHP http://t.co/nt1vIKKR
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Wall Street is on pace to break campaign contribution records to defeat Obama
politico.com
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Wealthy donor-funded "Super PACs" are outspending the GOP candidates this year
online.wsj.com
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Chart: The rich folks who are financing the "Super PACs"
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Romney still collects millions from Bain while running for office
nytimes.com
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Gingrich raved about Freddie Mac's business model in '07, after hefty contract with GSEs
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Heidi N. Moore:
RT @RWhelanWSJ: via @NickTimiraos: Newt says he warned of impending Fannie/Freddie doom in 2007. Unearthed interview says otherwise: htt ...
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Gingrich was paid at least $1.6M by Freddie Mac in part to woo free-market conservatives
bloomberg.com
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The Big Picture:
Gingrich Was Paid ~$1.7M From GSEs
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Gingrich was paid $300k to lobby for Freddie Mac, an agency he called "insane"
bloomberg.com
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Ryan McCarthy:
RT @counterparties: Gingrich was paid $300k to lobby for Freddie Mac, an agency he called "insane" http://t.co/dnLcdCOC
The River
Second Acts
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Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison
Felix
6 hrs ago
7 Sources
"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"
Things We Don't Need
7 hrs ago
2 Sources
New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "
Alpha
7 hrs ago
1 Sources
No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight
Crisis Retro
8 hrs ago
Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them
EU Mess
9 hrs ago
1 Sources
Greek youth unemployment is close to 75% in some areas
Primary Sources
5/22
1 Sources
The full Fed Minutes
Oxpeckers
5/22
9 Sources
Everyone secretly hates "Snow Fall"
New Normal
5/22
2 Sources
While life may feel more fluid, "America appears to be getting stuck in place"
It's Academic
5/22
2 Sources
Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned
Bitcoin
5/22
1 Sources
There is a "disturbing cultishness to the Bitcoin community... everyone is as bullish as can be"
EU Mess
5/22
Italy considers job sharing between older and younger workers
Energy
5/22
Why the structure of electric utilities is broken
Alpha
5/22
Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loeb's spin-off plan
Servicey
5/22
4 Sources
Broker pitchbooks are exactly as sleazy as you expect them to be
JPMorgan
5/22
How Jamie Dimon kept control during the shareholder challenge
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