Money & Markets – Week of 3.15.09

China Inc. On Huge Foreign Buying Spree
MoneyNews.com (19 March 09)

Short selling hedge funds lit the spark that led to the global economic meltdown.Now they want to help craft the laws Congress will pass to fix our broken regulatory system. That’s insane.

AIG Releases List of Bailout Beneficiaries
Guardian.co.uk

US Authorities to Seize $69m of Assets Held in Ruth Madoff’s Name
Guardian.co.uk (16 March 09)

Norway’s Krone: The New Safe Haven Currency?
Financial Times (18 March 09)

The Real AIG Scandal
Slate (17 March 09)

The Real Story Behind Those Greedy AIG Bankers
The Agonist (17 March 09)

At G20, Kremlin to Pitch New Currency
The Moscow Times.com (17 March 09)

Fed Launches Bold $1.2T Effort to Revive Economy
Yahoo News (18 March 09)

Chubby Brain Feed Your Head
Chubbybrain.com

FDIC Criticizes Massachusetts Bank With No Bad Loans for Being Too Cautious
Fox News (17 March 09)

How Robert Rubin’s Bright-Eyed Proteges Came to Dominate Wall Street
Alter Net (15 March 09)

Goldman’s Share of AIG Bailout Money Draws Fire
Reuters (18 March 09)

Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout
Bloomberg.com (18 March 09)

US Could Use Crisis to Wage ‘Financial Warfare’
CommonDreams.org (16 March 09)

$5 Billion in Political Contributions Bought Wall Street Freedom From Regulation, Restraint, Report Finds
Wall Street Watch (04 March 09)

Companies Get More Leeway on Mark-to-Market
CNBC (16 March 09)

IRS Says Madoff Victims Can Claim Theft Losses (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (17 march 09)

IMF Poised to Print Billions of Dollars in ‘Global Quantitative Easing’
Telegraph.co.uk (16 March 09)

Public Debt Information Related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Treasury Direct

Greenspan the Goat
Sanders Research Associates (17 March 09)

AIG Lists Firms to Which it Paid Taxpayer Money
Herald Tribune (16 March 09)

Barrick Settles Securities-Fraud Lawsuit, Talks With Insurers
Bloomberg (16 March 09)

Secession? We’re Already On Our Own
Carolyn Baker.net (12 March 09)

Cash-hungry U.S. States Turn to Web to Auction Goods
Reuters (14 March 09)

The Rise of the Underground
The Wall Street Journal (14 March 09)

Corporate Oil Booms in Low-tax Switzerland
Reuters (12 March 09)

Swiss Action Sparks Talk of ‘Currency War’
Financial Times (12 March 09)

Britain Monetizes Its National Debt
Market Skeptics (11 March 09)