Was a bit a bit crazed yesterday with the Madoff Montauk US Marshal vide [1]o and I recorded two new podcasts for today and tomorrow (Marketing Guru, Fed Economist) so I didn’t get a chance to blog.
Here are a few things that caught my eye as something I would have expanded on in Matrix and are worth reading, especially the last two on a single regulator.
Contract Signings Rise, and Deal-Watchers Exhale [Elizabeth Harris – NY Times] [2]
Let’s Wind Down Fannie and Freddie [Rob Cyran – NYT/Breakingviews.com] [3]
Real Estate Exposure Hurting Regional Banks [Walter Kurtz – Seeking Alpha] [4]
The rise of the renter-chic [Nicolas P. Retsinas – JCHS] [5]
The financial crisis as moneymaker [Justin Fox – The Curious Capitalist] [6]
Do Women Make Better Loan Officers? [Catherine Rampell – Economix/NYT] [7]
Economy: Hitting bottom is no fun [Andrew Leonard – Salon] [9]
Why there can only be one basket of regulatory eggs [Felix Salmon, Reuters] [10]
Dodd Leans Toward One Agency for All Banks [Stacy Kaper – American Banker] [11]