This week on FT Alphaville,
- There was a US U-turn on tangible common equity.
- And a heroic collapse in Japan.
- Meredith Whitney struck out on her own.
- While Richard Bove resurfaced.
- Tier 1 became increasingly irrelevant.
- Denmark crossed our radar.
- There was mystery at the United States Oil fund.
- S&P tried to kill banks (supposedly).
- The reverse con returned.
- City felt-ery was defended.
- The stress tests were stressed.
- There was a teddy bear fraud.
- RBS became the worst company in the world.
- The FSA renumerated.
- There was yet another AIM scandal.
- We were LIVE at the banking witch trials.
- UK QE was still waiting.
- We were told to buy gold.
- The Noddies continued.
- RBS was crunched.
- Sir Fred was front page.
- Lloyds was laughed at.
- Japan was parallelled, again.
- Robert Peston was questioned.
- And Eastern Europe got its billions.