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Breakfast Links: CIT, Jimmy Carter & The Grapes of Wrath

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The exact date that the Chinese stock market will collapse.  (MoneyScience) Stick a fork in CIT Group, 1908-2009.  (Bloomberg) They caught the runaway Credit Sueeeeesse broker, and no, he wasn’t at Le Cirque.  (NYT) Virginia is for Usury.  (LOLFed) JPMorgan smokes their numbers, 28 cents vs 4 cents expected…get ’em…

Breakfast Links: Reason #267 that Soccer Rules

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2939270&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The wonks think that Ben Bernanke‘s job will be safe when his term expires in January.  (MarketWatch) Simon Johnson wonders who OUR Upton Sinclair will be…where’s a good muckraker when you need one?  (Baseline Scenario) Business people and investors bug out as China locks up four Rio Tinto…

Breakfast Links: Hot Dogs, Chinese Cars & Cali Wine

What I’m Reading this Morning… Barry Ritholtz gives us the weekly rundown on gold.   (TBP) Freakonomics shows us the website that let’s you Track Your Taxes, hope you like war…   (Freakonomics) The closing of a Nathan’s hot dog franchise after 40 years serving Georgetown, sucks.  (Mises.org) Supply and Demand seems to be alive and…

Breakfast Links: Facebook, GM, E*Trade and Oil Speculators

General Motors (GM) is now forced to play diplomat as the shots are no longer called from Detroit, but from China and Russia. (Bloomberg) Oooooh!  Maybe we will one day get serious about disallowing speculators from screwing with oil and gas prices!  (NYT) Tough times for angel investors, even if you were a backer of…

Breakfast Links: Madoff, Google and Swiss Banking

Breakfast Links for June 29, 2009 It looks like the Suisse banks may have had enough in the US: UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, the country’s biggest banks, have told Americans to move their money into specially created units registered in the U.S., or lose their accounts. Smaller private banks such as Geneva-based…