Financial Arcana

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Searching for profit, banks turn to rainy-day reserves

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"One of the more ridiculous concepts that's ever been invented in accounting" may rolled back soon

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Big win for the bank lobby: Judge kills Dodd-Frank derivatives position limits
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Dewey's dragooned capital

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ben walsh: How opinions scooped the news on the JOBS Act’s problems http://t.co/FPmGctKE
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Banks are now taking a bigger cut of the spread between bond yields and mortgage rates

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Jesse Felder: Mortgage rates should be a mere 2.8% today... http://t.co/8yYnomn5 ...if not for big banks' bigger profits $XLF
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Russia agrees to a 90% haircut on $11 billion in Soviet-era loans to North Korea

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Now would be a really great time for banks to finally recognize their massive hidden losses

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The law that explains the folly of bank regulation
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An argument that naked CDS will help lessen the fallout of sovereign debt defaults

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Big banks may be hiding risk by using "collateral transformation"

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FT Alphaville: The 6am Cut London
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"Spoilsport bank regulators ruin another derivative that was too beautiful to live"

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naked capitalism: Links 9/10/12
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What Matt Taibbi got wrong about private equity in his latest opus

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The implications the NY AG's private equity tax inquiry