10 Mid-Week AM Reads

September 12, 2012 9:45am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reads:

• LINK OF THE DAY: Monetary Policy Explained With Animated Gifs (Rortybomb)
• Walker Says U.S. Budget Deal Unlikely for at Least a Year (Bloomberg) but see The Stock Market Loves Government Gridlock (Prag Cap)
• Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Bad Math on AIG (Naked Capitalism)
• Are Chinese Banks Hiding “The Mother of All Debt Bombs”? (The Diplomat)
• Foreclosure Fail: Study Pins Blame on Big Banks (Pro Publica)
see also Mortgage REITs’ leverage poses significant risks to the overall mortgage market (Sober Look)
• Economic Stimulus as the Election Nears? It’s Been Done Before (NYT)
• Where Have All the Liars Gone? (Book View Cafe)
• Reflections On Closing Our Series A Financing At Estimize (Leigh Drogen)
• Apple’s new dock connector is called ‘Lightning’, ‘Earpod’ headphones, ‘Loop’ iPod touch accessories, 2GB iPod shuffles (9 to 5 Mac)
• A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes (Pew Research)

What are you reading?

Companies Rush to Borrow Cash

Source: WSJ

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