Money & Markets – Week of 8.23.09

Fed Urges Secrecy on Banks in Bailout Programs
Reuters (27 Aug 09)
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Capital Flight: A Plunge in Foreign Capital Inflows Preceded the Break in US Financial Markets
Jesses Crossroads Cafe (26 Aug 09)

Bernanke Victimized by Identity Fraud Ring
Newsweek (25 Aug 09)

A New Kind of Pocket Protection
The Wall Street Journal (19 Aug 09)

Senator Warns of Hyperinflation Rivaling The 1980s
The Hills Blog (25 Aug 09)

Labor Leader Named Head of New York Fed
The Wall Street Journal (25 Aug 09)

Democratic Fundraiser Charged in Citigroup Fraud
CNBC.com (26 Aug 09)

French President: Dollar Can’t Remain World’s Only Reserve Currency
Nasdaq (26 Aug 09)

Public Comment on Commodity Futures Trading Commission Energy Position Limits [Large pdf file]
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (25 Aug 09)

Backwardation In Soybean And Sugar Confirms Imminent Food Crisis
Market Skeptics (25 Aug 09)

Fed Must Make Public Reports on Emergency Loans, U.S. Judge Says
Bloomberg.com (24 Aug 09)

CFTC ‘Considering’ Fresh Limits on Positions
Financial Times (25 Aug 09)

Audit The Fed “Dangerous”?
Market Ticker (25 Aug 09)

Stephen Roach: The Case Against Bernanke
Credit Writedowns (25 Aug 09)

The Troubling Side of Ben Bernanke
Telegraph.co.uk (25 Aug 09)

Who Really Pulled The Trigger on Lehman?
The Real News (25 Aug 09)

Rasmussen Consumer Index
Rasmussen Report (25 Aug 09)

Goldman’s Trading Tips Reward Its Biggest Clients
The Wall Street Journal (24 Aug 09)

Analyst Bove: Big FDIC Assessment Coming
The Wall Street Journal (24 Aug 09)

Italian Banks May Take Ham And Wine as Collateral
Guardian.co.uk (19 Aug 09)

Overstock CEO Makes Peace With Wall Street
The Street.com (15 Aug 09)

Securities and Exchange Commission Sounds Rare Investor Alarm
Sun-Times (23 Aug 09)

Is Goldman’s Selective Trading Disclosure A Legal Way For Preferred Clients To Front Run The Market?
Zero Hedge (23 Aug 09)

New Deficit Projections Pose Risks to Obama’s Agenda
Reuters (23 Aug 09)

Small Investors Face Big Hit in ETF Push
The Wall Street Journal (22 Aug 09)

California Pensions Have Become The States Next Fiscal Crisis
Public CEO.com (20 Aug 09)

The DB(k): Pension of The Future
Kiplinger (19 Aug 09)

Climate Change Legislation: What It Means to Businesses
Kiplinger (18 Aug 09)

Searching For The Depression—And Finding It!
Common Dreams.org (23 Aug 09)

Stiglitz Sees Risk to Dollar, Need for Reserve System (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (23 Aug 09)

Unemployment in California Hits Post-World War II High
Los Angeles Times (22 Aug 09)

Saudi Families Square up Over $20bn ‘Fraud’
Telegraph.co.uk (22 Aug 09)

Corporate Bond Defaults Hit Record
Financial Times (19 Aug 09)

Germany Braces For Second Wave of Credit Crunch
Telegraph.co.uk (18 Aug 09)