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Financial Arcana

How Fannie Mae made its record profit

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Economist's View: Links for 05-13-2013

A man drinks from a cup in front of a building where Wall Street is written, in New York's financial district

Financial Arcana

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

Financial Arcana

Hot new financial innovation: mortgage bonds not backed by the government

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Financial Arcana

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?

Financial Arcana

"If you think that running banks with so little loss-absorbing equity is crazy, you are right"

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Financial Arcana

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

EU accounting rules allowed banks to overstated assets, and pay nonexistent profits out as dividends and bonuses

Financial Arcana

EU accounting rules may have allowed banks to overstate assets and profits

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The day's final numbers are displayed on a digital board in the New York Stock Exchange

Financial Arcana

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

Fiscally Speaking
5/17

CBO compares the Obama and congressional budget plans

Oxpeckers
5/17
4 Sources

"Sponsored Content Pretty Fucking Awesome"

The Fed
5/17
2 Sources

Why the US and Europe need a tad more inflation

New Normal
5/17
5 Sources

Why the housing market continues to disappoint: supply-side issues

Helpful Reiminders
5/17
2 Sources

Americans say a family of four needs nearly $60,000 per year to get by

Black market
5/17

Argentina is considering amnesty for those who launder money through its banks

Valuations
5/17
1 Sources

No one is sure if this mansion listed at $190 million is actually worth that much

Alpha
5/17
1 Sources

Bill Ackman is investing in a $90 million New York penthouse

TBTF
5/16
2 Sources

The idea that you can wind down a failing megabank in some orderly fashion is probably a myth

EU Mess
5/16
3 Sources

It's banks that are killing Europe, not simply austerity

EU Mess
5/16
3 Sources

Europe's Central Bank now even wronger on inflation

The Oracle
5/16
7 Sources

S&P has downgraded Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Growth Industries
5/16
4 Sources

The US government expects to make $51 billion from student loans this year

Fiscally Speaking
5/16
2 Sources

The CBO is still likely over-estimating future deficits

Oxpeckers
5/16
3 Sources

The New Yorker welcomes your anonymous leaks (but still won't publish your sonnets)

Housing
5/16
1 Sources

Is there a price-fixing scandal brewing in the oil market?

Tumblr, and its cool-kid status, may be worth $1 billion to Yahoo

"The current Chairman of J.P. Morgan should be run out of town on a rail"

Greek shipping magnates are not really feeling the whole economic depression thing

Financial Arcana

How Fannie Mae made its record profit

The latest hot trade on Wall Street: swaps that lower banks' capital requirements

Hot new financial innovation: mortgage bonds not backed by the government

Programming a computer to trade securities with itself is probably illegal

"If you think that running banks with so little loss-absorbing equity is crazy, you are right"

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

EU accounting rules may have allowed banks to overstate assets and profits

How the IPO game is rigged: explicit kickbacks

Wall Street's newest old idea: turning illiquid securities into high quality collateral

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

CBO compares the Obama and congressional budget plans

"Sponsored Content Pretty Fucking Awesome"

Why the US and Europe need a tad more inflation

Why the housing market continues to disappoint: supply-side issues

Americans say a family of four needs nearly $60,000 per year to get by

Argentina is considering amnesty for those who launder money through its banks

No one is sure if this mansion listed at $190 million is actually worth that much

Bill Ackman is investing in a $90 million New York penthouse

The idea that you can wind down a failing megabank in some orderly fashion is probably a myth

It's banks that are killing Europe, not simply austerity

Europe's Central Bank now even wronger on inflation

S&P has downgraded Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

The US government expects to make $51 billion from student loans this year

The CBO is still likely over-estimating future deficits

The New Yorker welcomes your anonymous leaks (but still won't publish your sonnets)

There may or may not be a housing bubble in places like Brooklyn and Menlo Park, CA