Elsewhere on Tuesday,
- Is Mark Cuban the victim of a political hit job because he helped finance a movie that was scathingly critical of George W.Bush?
- GM and the next big corporate fad: Government-sponsored bankruptcies.
- Sterling: Investors can smell something whiffy in the UK economy.
- Everyone’s a zombie now.
- “If everything seems like it is moving in the same direction at the same time, it is…That there has been an increase in the correlation of seemingly non-related assets is not a surprise.”
- The economics and ethics of mortgage default.
- Goodbye, bonus. Hello, malus: Executive compensation, Swiss style.
- “There seems to be glee in the air as capitalists who once managed thousands of people and added wealth to a country are slaughtered for being greedy and smug.”
- Hirst admits his art is ‘overpriced.’
- Publicly-listed banks might not be such a good idea after all.
- “If I were Vickie Pandit or one of the Pandettes it would really frost my cookies to hear Andrew Cuomo suggest that ‘At the very least, Citigroup should follow Goldman Sachs’ lead and announce quickly that top executives will not be receiving bonuses this year’.”
- To all Yahoos: all of you know that I have always, and will always bleed purple.
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