Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

Exterminators made $258 million from bedbugs in 2009, up 263 percent from three years before — Slate

SEC sues Reserve Fund’s Bents for losing investors’ money. Bents say investors should foot their legal bill — Crain’s NY

White House renominates Diamond to Fed board — Bloomberg

White House denies plan to avoid Warren fight — Politico

Credit Suisse’s handy chart of the core Tier 1 capital of Europe’s biggest banks — Twitpic

NYU’s rent-control scheme — Mankiw

Bike Snob responds to my biking post — BSNYC

Barack Obama becomes the biggest arms dealer of all time, selling $60bn worth of F-15s to Saudi Arabia — Guardian

Full post as published by Macroprudential on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).