Counterparties

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Meet the nervous oil speculators

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the outlook for U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Capitol Hill

Transparency

The Fed is more powerful than ever, and it's writing new financial rules in secret

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Ben White: RT @vgmac: my story w/ Jon Hilsenrath on the Fed and public meetings: Fed Writes Financial Rules in Private http://t.co/G09Nr80b via @WSJ

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The Fed held a secret auction of AIG's crisis-era securities and only let 2 banks bid

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More on the Fed's opaque lending programs from Bloomberg

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses a news conference following a two-day policy session in Washington

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In 3 weeks, the Fed will release a first-of-its-kind forecast

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How the new Fed strategy could affect the bond market

Second Acts
5/23

Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

Felix
5/23
7 Sources

"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"

Things We Don't Need
5/23
2 Sources

New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "

Alpha
5/23
1 Sources

No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight

Crisis Retro
5/23

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

EU Mess
5/23
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

"The Too Big to Fail Subsidy is Negative Ten Billion Dollars, Says Goldman Sachs"

Corporate America's hoarding more and more cash, even as the economy improves

Rogoff: Fixing the eurozone crisis will require massive writedowns of debt

Dairy farmers are drowning in Greek yogurt's acidic byproduct

Transparency

Sheer madness: Lululemon responds to its see-through Yoga pants recall

It is private equity but the public has a right to know

Citigroup refuses to release a crucial number about how much capital it has

The Fed is more powerful than ever, and it's writing new financial rules in secret

The Fed held a secret auction of AIG's crisis-era securities and only let 2 banks bid

In 3 weeks, the Fed will release a first-of-its-kind forecast

Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"

New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "

No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

Greek youth unemployment is close to 75% in some areas

The full Fed Minutes

Everyone secretly hates "Snow Fall"

While life may feel more fluid, "America appears to be getting stuck in place"

Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned

There is a "disturbing cultishness to the Bitcoin community... everyone is as bullish as can be"

Italy considers job sharing between older and younger workers

Why the structure of electric utilities is broken

Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loeb's spin-off plan

Broker pitchbooks are exactly as sleazy as you expect them to be

How Jamie Dimon kept control during the shareholder challenge