Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

More than two thirds of state attorneys general plan to launch a joint probe into fraudulent mortgage paperwork — Reuters

The New Yorker profiles Nick Denton — TNY

Peter Thiel on how college is like a subprime mortgage: both involve lots of debt, selling it as an “investment” — WSJ

Paladino Attacks Gays in Brooklyn Speech — NYT

How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire: The Credit Card Concierge Experiment — 4HWW

The schizophrenia of the art world, booming and suffering at the same time — Artnet

AO Scott on Inside Job — NYT

Ask your lender to produce a copy of the original note on your mortgage — Where’s the Note

?If we can?t do even this ? if we can?t follow through on a project so obviously needed, so clearly in the interests of the state and the nation ? what hope is there for America?? — Krugman

Full post as published by Macroprudential on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).