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Are the big banks winning?
The big banks pay lip-service to the goals of Dodd-Frank -- but they're mounting bitter, rearguard actions in federal courts to block meaningful constraints and regulations on procedural and other grounds. This is an ominous turn of events, since these banks have the legal firepower to overwhelm regulatory agencies.
Unrealistic Nobel economics
The latest prize rewarded the study of stable pairwise matching. Like so much of game theory, the winning idea is simple, slightly illuminating for economists, occasionally useful for everyone - and profoundly misleading. People should not be reduced to calculating machines.
The fraught Fed-chairman choice
Binyamin Appelbaum, prescient as ever, has delivered this morning an analysis of what the Fed might look like post-Bernanke, and how that affects things even today.
Romney’s Etch a Sketch foreign policy
If Romney wins this election, it will be arguably the latest and greatest shift to the center in presidential campaign history.
Wanted: Equitable capitalism, profitable socialism
It's a struggle to find a modern political ideology that balances capitalism's wealth with socialism's equality.
Did the financial blogosphere go away?
Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown ask today where all the finance bloggers went.
Marissa Mayer and the art of the earnings call
Monday was a good day for Yahoo, and its new CEO. The bigger question is whether it signals a turnaround in the company.MOST COMMENTED
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