Selected reads from FT Alphaville this week,
- Weird waterfalls and the synthetic CDO stumper.
- A Minskian roadmap to the next gold mania.
- The Daily Mail discovers contango.
- The Daily Mail re-discovers contango.
- T-bill terror.
- All roads lead to retranching in CRE crunch.
- Cazenove, the broker that got brokered.
Best/least read,
- America’s Next Top Capitalist: Magic Johnson vs Goldman vs Wal-Mart.
- The return of capital controls, Indonesia edition.
Overheard in the Long Room,
- Perspectives on PwC’s global fraud report.
- The hand of Gaul.
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