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Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone

Management Secrets of The Grateful Dead by Joshua Green at The Atlantic

U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion at The Onion

Investing Local: Can the City of Angels Move Its Money? by Dennis Santiago at Huffington Post

Discounting the Discount Window by Todd Harrison at Minyanville

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The Edge: Two Olympic Investments in Canada

The Golden Rule for Obama’s New Debt Commission

Outrageous But Legal: EU Knew Goldman Sachs Helped Greece Use Derivatives to Conceal Deficits

Exclusive: Darden Professor Ed Hess Shares Case Studies in Smart Growth

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GDP Minus Inventory Restocking is Flat by Prieur du Plessis at Investment Postcards

Market Sentiment Overview for the Week by Babak at Trader’s Narrative

The Sick Men Of Europe: The Definitive Guide To The European Crisis by at Zero Hedge

How Politics Caused Fiscal Disaster by David Stockman at Minyanville

Long/Short Hedge Funds: Lowest Net Long Exposure Since May 2009 by Jay at Market Folly

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Top 30 Riskiest Countries for Investors

Worst of All Possible Worlds: Which Country’s Debts are Truly the Worst?

Exclusive: Darden Professor Ed Hess Shares Case Studies in Smart Growth

Trading Skills Overpowering Knowledge: Learn to Be Patient

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The Global Debt Bomb by Daniel Fisher at Forbes

What Truly Caused the Economic Crisis by Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture

How Likely is the US to Default on its Debt? by James Kostohryz at Minyanville

The Government’s $56 Billion Gift to Banks by David Henry at BusinessWeek

Taking a Trading Sabbatical at Abnormal Returns

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Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: CNBC Ratings Get Smashed

Joe Weisenthal Explains the MAVINS Countries as Investments

The Edge: A Quick Peek into Earnings Season

Outrageous But Legal: Social Security Ponzi Scheme Needs a Bailout

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Matthew Claassen Offers His Market Outlook by Babak at Trader’s Narrative

10 Fortune 500 Companies that Started with Next to Nothing at Business Pundit

Fed Gambles on Low Inflation and a Stable Housing Market at The Daily Gold

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadow by David Reilly at Bloomberg

Appalled In Greenwich, Connecticut by Cliff Asness at StumblingOnTruth.com

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The Age of the World

The Edge: New Technology Drives the Backbone of our Innovative System

Michael Panzner: If I were Federal Reserve Chairman I Would …

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The Global Debt Bomb at Forbes

How the Dollar Index Got Set Up for a Violent Reversal at Minyanville

Is the US Dollar a Crowded Trade? by Jordan Roy-Byrne at The Daily Gold

Check in with Damien Hoffman by Ilene at Phil’s Stock World [Interview with me which discusses some fun stuff including our plans for 2010]

What’s Still Hidden in AIG Files? at Huffington Post

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Is the NYSE Manipulating Trades?

The Edge: Three Restaurants for the New Decade

Is the Fed Really Against Regulation? The Case for Exceptionalism

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Up-and-Coming Retailers at Minyanville

See the Real State of Collapsing State Tax Revenues by Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider

Leaders of SEC and FDIC say agencies’ failings contributed to financial crisis at Washington Post

Capital One Auto Charge Offs Surge by 50% at Zero Hedge

Record Bank Bonuses Based on Record Fraud by Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture

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2010 Market Outlook Report by Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT

Exclusive: The Score CEO John Levy Talks the Future of Sports Media

The Google Moral Skeptics are Wrong

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University of Chicago School of Thought Gets an “F” by Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture

PIMCO: There’s No Way The Market Can Absorb The Fed’s Giant Balance Sheet Once It’s Time To Tighten at Business Insider

5 Centuries of Bubbles and Bursts at CNNMoney

Interview With Wall St. Cheat Sheet’s Damien Hoffman by Drea Knufken at Business Pundit

Outraged By the Cable Wars? Cut the Cord at Minyanville

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Exclusive: Bulls On Wall Street Founder Rahul Sood

The Edge: 7 Interesting Comments About Markets in 2010

5 Emerging Trends in the Way We Work

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2010: Things I’ve Learned by Todd Harrison at Minyanville

10 Thoughts on the Past Decade in Equities at Abnormal Returns

On Goldman’s (and Now Morgan Stanley’s) Deceptive Synthetic CDO Practices (aka Screwing Their Customers) by Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism

Stiglitz: 6 Harsh Lessons We Failed to Learn by Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture

Budget Deficits Have Consequences by Diana Furchtgott-Roth at Real Clear Markets

Free TV in Trouble at The Huffington Post

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Is it All Just a Ponzi Scheme?

Featured Trade Google Hits First Profit Target

Into the Wild, or TARP Officials Gone Wild?

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Lobbyists on pace for record year at Politico

A Falling Dollar Hurts Our Importers, Too by John Tamny at Real Clear Markets

Fed’s approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis at The Washington Post

Is the Bull Market Back? by Kevin Depew at Minyanville

The New Killing It: Being SAC-Remote by Teri Buhl

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2009 Roundtable Recaps and Outlooks

The Edge: Nine to Watch in the Last Week of ‘09

Healthcare Reform has More Corporate Sponsors than NASCAR

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Bernanke Person of the Year, My Foot! at YahooFinance

Bank Lobbyists Launch Call to Action to Crush Financial Reform by Ryan Grim at Huffington Post

Why a Google Phone Isn’t Great for Shareholders by Kevin Kelleher at Minyanville

The Economy Is Growing Faster Than You Think by David Ranson at Real Clear Markets

Dollar Rally! by Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture

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A More Honest Look at TIME Person of the Year Ben Bernanke

Premium Preview: Near Term Analysis of Gold

High Treason: Credit Suisse Circumvents Iran Sanctions to Make Money

Exxon: The Number One Energy Giant Diversifies its Pipeline