Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

“A Nov. 26 article incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.” — WaPo

If we were friends with John Paulson, we’d know what the roman numeral for “9″ was. But I love this series — NYMag

The freelancer scam at Time and NBC Universal: you wanna get paid? Then take a discount! — Gawker

French conservatism: ?I may have been looking too far afield,? he said. In the future, ?there may be less Languedoc? — NYT

Pandora, explained — xkcd

He wanted to become a great financial success. As a result, he did not mind wearing women’s clothing — NYMag, Reuters

New Jersey pulls a Larry Summers, and pays $22K a day for foiled bond plan — Bloomberg

“Picture you are in a room with 10 people screaming” — Rortybomb

Bonuses & ideology — Dillow

Inside information is a hallucinogen — D^2

The French CDS market is looking very messy — Risk

Problems, the infographic — Buzzfed

Full post as published by Macroprudential on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).