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  • Mar 5, 2010

    Morning Reading

    Happy Friday. The latest jobs report says the unemployment rate was unchanged last month at 9.7%. Another 36,000 jobs lost. More:…

  • Speaking of Too Big To Fail, there were some sparks at a congressional hearing today on that very subject. Plus, a thank you note from the CEO of…

  • HBO has been weighing several options for creating a film about the financial crisis. It appears HBO has settled on turning Andrew Ross Sorkin's…

  • Mar 4, 2010

    Confusion reigns

    I've been thinking about comments Elizabeth Warren made this week on how regulation always moves toward complexity and away from the simplicity…

  • Mar 4, 2010

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. A few things to start the day, including Robber Barons, Toyota and Greece:…

  • Sure, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency is the subject of a great deal of debate this week. What I didn't expect is that it would become…

  • Today's report on mortgage rates shows them dropping below 5%. Normally, we'd be seeing a refinancing boom to go along with that. But in many…

  • Gun control advocates are getting nowhere with Starbucks. While some businesses have banned gun-toting patrons in response to groups testing their…

  • Mar 3, 2010

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. A few things to interest or provoke you, from taxes to consumer protection to health care:…

  • It appears Senators are close to a deal on financial regulatory reform. But as I reported yesterday, this deal would put the Consumer Financial…

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