Money & Markets – Week of 1.17.10

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“19 Jan 10) Bernanke Seeks to Defuse Criticism Through GAO Audit Bloomberg.com (21 Jan 10) Bank of America Posts Loss After Firm Repays Bailout Bloomberg.com (21 Jan 10) Tax Breaks for Almost Everyone Kiplinger (19 Jan 10) Bernanke Asks GAO to Audit the AIG Bailout Economists View (19 Jan 10) China …”

Meredith Whitney Predicts Obama Bank Plan Will Pass
Bloomberg.com (22 Jan 10)

Obama’s Banking Proposals: The Impact on Europe
BBC News (22 Jan 10)

Strike A Blow At The Market-rigging Banks By Moving Your Money
GATA (21 Jan 10)

Why Are 86% of the NY Fed’s MBS Purchases Occurring During Option Expiration Weeks?
Jesses’s Cafe Ame’ricain (21 Jan 10)

JAL Pension Shortfall May Prompt Japan Inc. to Change Its Ways
Bloomberg.com (21 Jan 10)

FDIC Chief Got Bank of America Loans While Working On Its Rescue
The Huffington Post (21 Jan 10)

Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun Wins Approval of Europeans
The New York Times (21 Jan 10)

Fed to End Overseas Dollar ‘Swaps’
The Wall Street Journal (21 Jan 10)

Credit Card Companies Pulling Back Credit Offers to American Households
My Budget 360 ((19 Jan 10)

Bernanke Seeks to Defuse Criticism Through GAO Audit
Bloomberg.com (21 Jan 10)

Bank of America Posts Loss After Firm Repays Bailout
Bloomberg.com (21 Jan 10)

Tax Breaks for Almost Everyone
Kiplinger (19 Jan 10)

Bernanke Asks GAO to Audit the AIG Bailout
Economists View (19 Jan 10)

China to Control Credit Growth
The Wall Street Journal (20 Jan 10) [Must subscribe to read full article.]

BAC:US Bank of America Corp Industry: Diversified Banking Inst
Bloomberg.com (21 Jan 10)

A Bank Levy Will Not Stop The Doomsday Cycle
Financial Times (19 Jan 10)

Is The U.S. Economy Being Tanked By Mistake or By Intent?
LewRockwell.com (19 Jan 10)

Banks Pull Another $1 Billion From Small Business Lending
CNNMoney.com (18 Jan 10)

Ex-Morgan Stanley Employee’s Dead Body Found In Delivery Van
Here Is The City News (18 Jan 10)

ECB Prepares Legal Ground For Euro Rupture As Greek Crisis Escalates
Telegraph.co.uk (17 Jan 10)

Darrell Issa Seeks To Expand AIG Disclosure Inquiry To Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson And Goldman’s Friedman
Zero Hedge (15 Jan 10)

Merkel Says Greece Means Euro Faces ‘Difficult’ Time
Bloomberg.con (14 Jan 10)

Big Mystery Buyer For Treasuries; Are His Initials B.B.?The Minsky Moment Approaches
Zero Hedge (11 Jan 10)