Elsewhere on Wednesday:
- What John Thain, Jon Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake and Barbara Streisand have in common
- So what exactly makes a bank ‘too big to fail’?
- Another Geithner ethics compromise (’let-them-eat-cake’ edition)
- Marking the market to market
- Mike Mayo’s alternative options to nationalisation
- Learning from failure: A useful presentation
- Just what is Dow thinking?
- Exonerating Dick Fuld (yes really…)
- Central bankers: From heroes to zeroes
- Stiglitz demands more bang for his bail-out buck
- A multimedia guide to how the US dealt with past recessions: What worked and what didn’t
- Davos misson - keep the free-market baby, throw out the murky financial bathwater
- Limiting bonuses would have been a great idea once, but it’s just pointless now and too late.
- That helicopter post…
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