My afternoon train reading:
• History Repeats Itself Because No One Was Listening The First Time (Alhambra Partners)
• Eisinger: Pruning Hedge Fund Regulation Without Cultivating Better Rules (NYT)
• Spain Set to Surrender Rank of 12th-Biggest Economy to Australia (Bloomberg)
• Why big banks are hazardous to US financial health (Economic Times) see also Why Are the Big Banks Suddenly Afraid? (Economix)
• Reinsurance: With Lax Regulation, a Risky Industry Flourishes Offshore (DealBook)
• The Templeton Effect (Chronicle)
• Management Secrets of the NFL (WSJ)
• I Made the Robot Do It (NYT)
• The Encyclopedia of Life: Animals that travel in schools, towers, bloats and more (TED)
• The Wall Street Summer Intern Diaries (NY Mag)
Whats upon your iPad?
A comparison of competitiveness and wealth
Source: Economist
Category: Financial Press
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Fa(r)ceBook buying back shares. Let the price manipulation continue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/technology/facebook-moves-to-aid-its-shares.html?_r=1&hpw
How low can FB go?
Zeee — Rooooo !
LIEBOR was predicted long ago?
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/cftc-ignored-warnings-of-libor-gaming-15-years-ago-1052335-1.html
more LIEBOR. states itching to sue? maybe to make up lost tax revenue?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/business/banks-facing-suits-as-states-weigh-their-libor-losses.html
the industries with most ex government officials?
http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I
why some are terrified that the private equity investigation is going on
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/whats-at-issue-in-the-private-equity-tax-inquiry/
might be the beginning of a few perp walks?
THIS IS SHGITTIN BIG
American Airlines, United face trial over September 11 destruction
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-united-face-trial-043909191.html
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US bankruptcy judge throws out union contract of American Airlines’ pilots
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-bankruptcy-judge-throws-out-union-contract-of-american-airlines-pilots/2012/09/04/5d9f54b0-f6f6-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html
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absent video @ 12:35ish CDST
googled & searched by eye “cnbc bob pisani airline” travels are and UP thats green^ (for somebody)
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psst – had to sign in to get HERE – wtf respectfully @MrBR
Paul Ryan sought Afordable Care Act funding for a health care clinic in his Distict and by the way simulus funding as well.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169757/exclusive-paul-ryan-quietly-requested-obamacare-cash
Apple iPhone no longer the best selling phone in the United States.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/galaxy-s-iii-sales-iphone_n_1855663.html
We are number one.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/08/28/10767/us-sets-record-arms-sales-2011
Bob Woodward’s new book looks interesting
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bob-woodward-book-debt-deal-collapse-led-pure/t/story?id=17104635
Why Apple Actually Lost to Samsung (old story?)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409010,00.asp%20