Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

Please scientists: give up your faith in “statistical significance” (which you get wrong) and go back to replication — Science News

Azerbaijan’s president makes $228k/year. His 11-year-old son just spent $44M on Dubai property — WaPo

Don’t prerinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher — NYT

If you only read one person on Lehman and financial reform, it has to be Konczal — Rortybomb

Ivory Coast refinances its defaulted Brady bonds at 80 cents on the dollar — Reuters

NYC Benefit Performance in support of tsunami disaster relief for the Juan Fernández Islands, Chile — Bechstein America

New York: Center of the World — Thomas Frank

Full post as published by Macroprudential on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).