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The Weekender

 This week on FT Alphaville,

- Fiscal patriotism, we NEED YOU!

- Bubbles, the shampoo and Chinese kind.

- A rogue trader in crude oil.

- Introducing www.franktimis.co.uk.

- Taleb vs Tavakoli goes postal.

- Implied sovereign ratings.

- The league of prime brokers.

- China’s MAD dollar strategy.

- Clubbable miners.

- Prudent decisions in central banking.

- Comprehensive income cleverness.

- Goldman and Rolling Stone, redux.

- An in Not debt exchange in Austria.

- Northern Rock covered.

- Smarter than your average undergrad.

- A fiscal emergency in California.

- Collateral damage at the ECB.

- Some more reward for failure.

- Bitchin’ over Bernanke.

- A UK GDP FAIL.

- Investors go moo.

- Banks prepare for failure!

- The other emerging Europe crisis.

- Cigarettes are good for you…

- Somebody call the SFO.

- One bank for sale.

- Hybrid debt attack!

- Gangreenous stocks.

- The economics of toast.

- Rest in peace Eonia.

- Return of the CMBS slice and dice.

- Some hedge fund bull****