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Rhetoric

American politicians don't like talking about poor people

Mission accomplished: Brian Moynihan says BofA has built a "fortress balance sheet"

Bob Ivry: BofA's Moynihan Declares Victory Over Capital Doubters (Though Haunted By Ghost of Ken Lewis) http://t.co/x8JzOCYX

The European Central Bank (ECB) President Draghi speaks during the monthly news conference in Frankfurt

Rhetoric

naked capitalism: Links 8/3/11

Must Read
6/19
2 Sources

Unscrupulous companies charge students $1,600 for loan help they could get for free

Oxpeckers
6/19
3 Sources

"The biggest rule of clickbait: No one wants to read about finance"

UGH
6/19
2 Sources

Female labor participation increasingly comes at the cost of being a mother

The Fed
6/19
10 Sources

The full Fed minutes from May's meeting: No change, "fiscal policy is restraining growth"

Hilarious
6/19
2 Sources

"The world can certainly use more legal satire": an amazing cease and desist response

Tech
6/19

Only the rich can afford to be early adopters, but they get stuck with bad products

Remuneration
6/19
2 Sources

In the UK, per capita banker pay is already higher than it was before the crisis

Alpha
6/19
3 Sources

The cost of sitting on cash

Meta-Takedowns
6/19
10 Sources

Nate Silver takes down Politico's attempted takedown of him

Housing
6/19

REITs aren't quite so hot anymore

Viral
6/19

Clapping is a "social contagion," researchers say

healthcare
6/18
1 Sources

For the first time in almost 40 years, medical costs fell in May

interesting
6/18
1 Sources

The case for convenient disabled parking, and against free disabled parking

The Fed
6/18

The US recovery by the numbers: not quite there yet

Data Points
6/18
1 Sources

Internship lawsuits are officially a trend

Scandals
6/18
2 Sources

Watch Jon Hilsenrath destroy Rick Santelli on CNBC

US consumers’ health-care costs fell in May for the first time in almost four decades

A really good preview of the Fed's big announcement today

The immigration bill will cut the deficit by $200 billion over the next 10 years, CBO says

Rhetoric

American politicians don't like talking about poor people

Mission accomplished: Brian Moynihan says BofA has built a "fortress balance sheet"

The ECB's slogan should be: “Talk tough, and open the vaults”

Don't believe UBS's CEO when he says banks are helpless against rogue traders

Obama announces "pivot" to jobs for the 15th time since February 2009

Unscrupulous companies charge students $1,600 for loan help they could get for free

"The biggest rule of clickbait: No one wants to read about finance"

Female labor participation increasingly comes at the cost of being a mother

The full Fed minutes from May's meeting: No change, "fiscal policy is restraining growth"

"The world can certainly use more legal satire": an amazing cease and desist response

Only the rich can afford to be early adopters, but they get stuck with bad products

In the UK, per capita banker pay is already higher than it was before the crisis

The cost of sitting on cash

Nate Silver takes down Politico's attempted takedown of him

REITs aren't quite so hot anymore

Clapping is a "social contagion," researchers say

For the first time in almost 40 years, medical costs fell in May

The case for convenient disabled parking, and against free disabled parking

The US recovery by the numbers: not quite there yet

Internship lawsuits are officially a trend

How the IRS keeps the $4.3 trillion nonprofit world secret