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• Donald Trump Staff in Talks With Financiers, Campaign Managers to Explore Third Party Bid

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Good grief. BTW: I've clipped this to The Trump Watch.

• Man tries to sell Pat Tillman's game-worn cleats on eBay … for $3.2 million | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo! Sports

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Despicable!

• A Modern Pecora Commission ? | The Big Picture

  Sun Jan 29, 2012
  • Pay special attention to Ritholtz's first comment in his blog post - he filed the story on Thursday and on Friday 11 subpoenas were issued for one of the issues he mentioned in his WaPo article.

• On Hoover's Attempts to Rescue the Banks: Echoes - Phillip Scranton, Bloomberg

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • About 800 banks closed their doors in late 1930, and more than 1,500 in 1931.

• Catholic Leaders Challenge Gingrich and Santorum on Divisive Rhetoric Around Race and Poverty | Faith in Public Life

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • Now, if only the Church would truly make it complete and deny both men the Holy Eucharist.

• More Evidence that JP Morgan Stuck the Knife in MF Global « naked capitalism

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • As many, including this blogger, have pointed out, it was JP Morgan that did in the doomed Lehman by withhold $7 billion of cash and collateral.

• Why it's time to break up the 'too big to fail' banks - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • Just because the rule making process is corrupted (or put another way...getting Dodd-Frank 619 implemented has a snowball's chance in hell; if last Wednesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing about it is evidence) doesn't mean that the obvious which Shiela Bair points to (and the rest of …

• Why it's time to break up the 'too big to fail' banks - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • What a pleasure to read. Ms. Bair has a wonderful writing "voice". She saw first had at the helm of the FDIC, what havoc has been wreaked by the captains of finance during this current "big bank" era. It's time to find safe harbor.

• BREAKING: Exclusive: Newt Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to Be President, Ex-Wife Says - ABC News

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • only in that sophomoric way the smacked-in-the-whoohah America's Funniest Home Videos defines gets laughs. Honestly? I'm am curious how Jon Stewart will treat this. You just can't make this stuff up

• Carnival Questions Captain's Judgment as Death Toll Rises: Captain ordered Ship Off Programmed Course

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • You've a good point.