Elsewhere on Wednesday,
- “Treasurys are clearly the belle of the investment ball.”
- The model made me do it.
- The M&A buyers’ market.
- Surprised there’s a recession?
- “If the TARP were a private company, it would have a Sarbanes-Oxley problem.”
- Commodity traders’ pay falling faster than oil prices…
- Forget debt. The Fed should buy stock index futures.
- Securities lending starting to dry?
“…although bankers flatter themselves that they’re so smart they could work anywhere.”
- A deflation debate.
- “When a central bank thinks its house is on fire, it too will rush to save the thing valued most.”
- Reverting to the mean post options expiration?
- Michael Lewis on the hedge fund manager who saw it coming.
- Joe the plumber, of the Austrian economics school.
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