Elsewhere on Monday:

- It did not have to be this way….

- Mark-to-market RIP?

- The (US) stock market’s worst-ever 10-year stretch

- Design your own stimulus plan – it’s easy!

- A cup of Starbucks coffee or an AIG share – the dilemmas posed by the under-$1 stock club

- Is the global banking crisis a problem of solvency or liquidity?

- Shaking hands with the government – or at least with Pimco

- Why anti-protectionists sound protectionist

- How bankers screwed up their PR – big time

- “I’m in a time warp. I keep hearing Howard Beale from the movie “Network” screaming, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more.”  Yet when I open my eyes, I find myself looking not at Beale but at President Barack Obama.”

- It’s mega-party-time in the bankruptcy and restructuring business

- A new hedge-fund business model

- Why does Rick Bookstaber hate blogs?

- The world’s most expensive “bong-smoking” photo
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