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Afternoon Linkage

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On April 15, 2010 @ 5:03 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled

Some of the more interesting reads today:

• Merrill Lynch’s $50 billion feud (Fortune [1])

• This Market Has Its Freq On (WSJ [2])

• Forget Newsweek [3] — Roubini’s popularity may be a contrary indicator (Ekonomi Türk [4])

• My favorite headline of today: ‘Jerk’ Insurance Soothes Property Sellers Amid Recovery Signs (Bloomberg [5])

• Defaults Rise in Loan Modification Program (NYT [6]) See also Federal aid is forestalling only a fraction of foreclosures, report says  (Washington Post [7]) Is anyone still surprised by this?

• A Partisan Scrum on Fannie, Freddie (WSJ [8])

• Puget Sound Business Journal Live blogs the WaMu hearings [9]

• How not to choke when the big game is on the line (Frontal Cortex [10])

• Video games: the addiction (Guardian [11])

• Welcome to DotComArchive.org [12]… If you created or worked at an internet technology company during the 1990s, we invite you to tell us about your experiences

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[1] Fortune: http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/15/news/companies/merrill_lynch.fortune/index.htm

[2] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303348504575184072947851354.html

[3] Newsweek: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/04/newsweek-cover-contrary-vs-contrary-indicator/

[4] Ekonomi Türk: http://ekonomiturk.blogspot.com/2010/04/roubini-google-trends-vs-s-500-dr-doom.html

[5] Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=azIZ3AFCzpzk&

[6] NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/business/15mortgages.html

[7] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/14/AR2010041404336.html

[8] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304798204575183833167412948.html

[9] WaMu hearings: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2010/04/wamu_hearing_begins.html

[10] Frontal Cortex: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/04/dont_choke.php

[11] Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/mar/21/tom-bissell-video-game-cocaine-addiction

[12] DotComArchive.org: http://dotcomarchive.org/

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