Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

Wherein Pimco wheels out a robot named “Neel Kashkari” which unfortunately fails the Turing Test — Pimco

Wherein the first Edible Los Angeles blog entry in 6 months announces it’s for sale — ELA

DeLong nails “the crux of the SEC’s Goldman Sachs case” – conceptually, if not legally — DeLong

The SEC inspector general’s report on the Stanford affair is devastating. Funny how it came out the same day as the Goldman filing — SEC

Krugman and Avent on financial reform — NYT, Economist

Someone please tell the WSJ that if they replace “bonds” with “IOUs”, that doesn’t make the story any easier to read — WSJ

Quite easy and very tasty ramp soup — Epicurious

YouGov show Liberal Democrats ahead! CON 32%(-1), LAB 26%(-3), LDEM 33%(+4) — UK Polling Report

Genius: the train that never stops at a station — YouTube

So, God can send a sunstorm to destroy my money. What do you want me to do about it? — SSRN

America?s Costliest Tax Break — Yglesias

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple. Shockingly intolerant story devoid of compassion — Bilerico

Full post as published by Macroprudential on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).