On FT Alphaville this week,
- On Monday, how banks’ post-stress-test capital shortfall could have been billions bigger.
- More financial ducking and diving from the UK’s toxic Pub Cos.
- And Bill Ackman’s Gordon Gekko moment in the most expensive proxy battle yet.
- On Tuesday, Meredith Whitney and the “great government momentum trade.”
- More ETF market manipulation fun: the United States Oil Fund, redux.
- Jim Rogers calls another currency crisis: a dollar one.
- Midweek, the US Treasuries derivatives regulation proposal.
- Question of the week: Is the dash for trash over?
- Exploring Japan’s aversion to dollar bonds.
- On Thursday, Roubini says the renminbi may replace the dollar.
- Shareholder activism: a challenge.
- ETF/market manipulation fun, gas market edition.
- And on Friday, big (trouble) in Japan: banks face up to huge capital raisings.
- Temasek sees no green shoots and offloads BofA stake.
- And yet another ponzi connection emerges in the Austin/Biden/Ponta Negra/Paradigm sleaze nexus.