Elsewhere on Thursday,
- Synthetic securities are not so strange. Many retail investors own them.
- How a calm, reasonable president gets exercised about … financial regulation.
- Paulson & Co. turns bullish on housing.
- Tourre was and still is expected before the Senate.
- The next derivatives disaster.
- How dangerous are financial derivatives to societies.
- Did ACA know Paulson was going short?
- Looking for new markets? Try these.
- If California defaults, will it bring on Goldman-like lawsuits?
- Speaking of the Golden State: how public-sector unions broke California.
- Daytrading for sports.
- How the secondary market in proprietary algorithms works.
- Further, further reading.