Elsewhere on Friday,

- The Fed should raise interest rates.

- The case for 2-1/4.

- TSLF success.

- RIP Bond Rally, 2005-2008.

- “The SEC is the 1930′s response to the stock market.”

- Ich bin ein Berliner: On nailing rumourmongers.

- Fitch and Egan Jones versus the AAA Ambac orthodoxy.

- “Only the very naive didn’t expect Rupert Murdoch to find some sly way around the agreement he made to respect The Wall Street Journal’s editorial independence once it was his.”

- How different is Murdoch’s WSJ?

- Sequoia investor attrition could “cause us to have to sell stocks that we didn’t want to”.

- House price options, Lehman luxury condos edition.

- Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein: world food crisis is no surprise.

- What the Gord giveth…

- First as tragedy, then as farce.

- Touchy feely Fox. “Willard, co-host of Fox Business News’ Happy Hour, confessed to wearing pre-distressed shoes, reading Women’s Wear Daily and getting his famous tresses trimmed at downtown salon Privé, where a basic cut runs from $90 to $300. Willard’s stylist is Frederique.”

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