Financial Arcana

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How Fannie Mae made its record profit

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Economist's View: Links for 05-13-2013
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The latest hot trade on Wall Street: swaps that lower banks' capital requirements

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Regulators are starting to fight back against "needless corporate complexity" in the banking sector
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Hot new financial innovation: mortgage bonds not backed by the government

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Programming a computer to trade securities with itself is probably illegal

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Ezra Klein: Wonkbook: Is an immigration deal at hand in Senate?
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"If you think that running banks with so little loss-absorbing equity is crazy, you are right"

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Private equity finds a new way to drain cash from their portfolio companies

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Devin Banerjee: A few lines in a filing and a private-equity firm can collect payouts for years after a portfolio company's IPO: http://t.co/qkqXoEsKfa #tax
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EU accounting rules may have allowed banks to overstate assets and profits

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How the IPO game is rigged: explicit kickbacks

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Bankrupt 1990s Internet toy company still thinks it was undervalued
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Wall Street's newest old idea: turning illiquid securities into high quality collateral

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Sovereign CDS volumes are down nearly 50% since an EU-wide ban

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Ryan McCarthy: 4 months after an EU-wide ban on naked shorts, sovereign CDS trading volume is down as much as 50% http://t.co/9unehRdvak