Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

Peter Lattman on the market in “so-called gourmet cupcake shops” — NYT

The income of the top 1% of the US population = the total annual expenditures of the US government — Quiggin

We’re too quick to use “mental illness” as an explanation for violence — Slate

Matt Miller’s massive unpublished profile of Gene Sperling from 1999 — Miller

Larry Summers is the keynote speaker at the 17th Annual Global Hedge Fund Summit in Bermuda — Marhedge

Full post as published by Macroprudential on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).