This week on FT Alphaville,
- Darling bet our future away
- One over-leveraged Citi got a bailout
- History taught us this
- But reserve requirements fell anyway
- Tarp went mainstreet
- BHP had enough
- The world sat down to some bailout maths
- We got the Armageddon index
- Was it all too much for one paper empire?
- Quantitative Easing finally got explained
- Guarantees stayed vague
- We blamed the quants
- But, the visionaries were right
- Was it time to hail the zirp regime?
- It wasn’t good in the world of canvases
- UK house prices collapsed a little less
- Analysts finally took the hint
- Credit wasn’t a problem in Japan
- Did saving Bear Stearns increase systemic risk?
- Luxury got tiresome
- RBS couldn’t give it away
- It wasn’t looking good for Metrovacesa either
- Get your hedgie docs here!
- Was it finally time to take up knitting?
- Or time to prepare for the China syndrome?
- All in all, a bleak bleak Friday