Sunday Jul 20 2008
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- It was a Black Monday for Yahoo! after Microsoft walked away from its bid…
- which prompted calls for a YLF - a Yahoo Lending Facility
- and Alan Greenspan said the US was in an “awfully pale” recession- On Tuesday, we witnessed the second coming of the famous Gold Fields bid hoaxer, Edward Pastorini
- while Goldman Sachs said $200 oil was in sight

- Midweek, we looked for some recession proof stocks - and found some in comic books and video games
- The FSA added to the regulatory alphabet soup with RINGA, “relevant information not generally available”
- while another Aussie scoundrel popped up down under and banks cut back on their taxi spending

- On Thursday, we wondered whether oil had out-bubbled tech and if negative equity really drove foreclosures
- and pondered the cost of chasing insiders and the outlook for Agflation
- The leveraged loan clear-out continued
- and Erik Sirri spooked the markets

- On Friday, Alistair Darling saved the British housing market
- while uber-bear Albert Edwards invoked Freddie Krueger
- John Kemp said people were calling oil all wrong
- and we launched our quest to find the next Helen Thomas

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