Elsewhere on Monday:
- The end of the financial world as we know it
- The end of the contemporary-art world as we see it
- Reliving nightmares: The 10 craziest days on Wall Street in 2008
- Six degrees between tragedy and farce…
- Economists behaving badly
- The death of e-commerce, or why the internet is getting old
- Buiter takes on another bit of orthodoxy, and it’s a doozy
- The Deal Professor’s “year of learning”
- The UK’s recession: harder and faster, deeper and longer, than anyone predicts
- For those who worry about a Goldman Sachs conspiracy to take over the world, it must be some comfort that it probably only extends to financial services.
- The comfort you get from a triple-A rating is like the comfort you get from locking three car doors.
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