Bailout

Thursday links stick their head in the sand

By Felix Salmon

Jonah Lehrer on why investors should ignore the markets and the financial press

Paul Smalera comprehensively demolishes the idea that micropayments might ever save Time Inc

Larry Summers is not in touch with his uncle, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson. How very… Larry.

Skeel and Partnoy define CDOs as credit derivatives. Not sure that’s really necessary, or helpful.

If you thought regulators were captured by Wall Street, just wait till you see financial journalists!

Looking at the yield curves in the US and Canada, it seems that the Fed has committed itself to no rate hikes until 2010

Quotes of the times: “$2.7 trillion may sound like a lot of money, but“…

Full post as published by Macroprudential on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).