- Mainstream media headline of the day (illustrated above): Lack of Jobs, Foreclosures May Keep US Housing Market Depressed. Awww, why don’t they get it some Paxil or something? – From the “put your money where your mouth is” department… Mises to Krugman: buy more stuff, dude (via TakeAReport) – Minimum wage laws apparently have [...]

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- TRB looks at the Government Motors IPO. Get long petroleum, they’re ordering a lot of lipstick for this pig – Maybe YOU can’t get blood from a stone, but cable companies are sure deriving a lot of revenue from unoccupied homes and condos – Donald Trump joins the teabaggers (h/t Bart L.) HuffPo has [...]

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- On the EUD/USD, the octopus remains moot. – Take a look at the Beveridge curve and the unemploment rate, and then have a stiff drink. – Punxsutawney Fed sees six more months of economic winter. – JDA looks at some of the subtleties involved in regulating the series of tubes. – In the great [...]

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Hank Paulson hearts the financial reform bill and wishes he’d had one just like it. We are all so very screwed. Work for a bank? Make a lot of money last year? Ken Feinberg is calling you out…and that’s pretty much all he’s doing. That’ll show you. Bernanke has a plan to fix the economy: [...]

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- YUM Brands + user generated content = Fail. (Or win, depending on how you look at it.) h/t WallStreetFighter – Wondering what’s on Ben Bernanke’s desktop? – Chart of the day: where are the world’s biggest banks? Hint: Not the USA. And you thought WE were too big to fail. h/t TakeAReport – TRB [...]

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