What I'm reading this morning:
Concept Art by Fred Gambino
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…
JPMorgan almost bought Morgan Stanley at Paulson‘s request during the crisis. (DealBook)
SIA: 2nd quarter chip sales up 17% sequentially, 4 months of gains in a row. (WSJ)
Commercial RE loans blowing up faster than you thought. (Clusterstock)
Nouriel Roubini goes bullish on commodities. (ResearchReloaded)
A Swissman (is that a word?) writes an op-ed defending Swiss banks. Oh please, Pierre. (NYT)
Hef gets $18 million for the Playboy Mansion’s guesthouse. If those walls could talk… (NYP)
Why Cash for Clunkers is futile and not of tremendous benefit to the economy. (WSJ)
Incredible concept art of a post-apocalyptic Disneyland for the upcoming Epic Mickey game. (Offworld)
New Q&A in The Walrus with firestarter Christopher Hitchens. (Walrus)
In case you didn’t have enough to worry about: Introducing…Gorilla AIDS! (NewScientist)
