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1. ICI Mutual Fund Statistics
   
   Sat Sep 4 21:36:56 2010
   Carl Swenlin. "The Investment Company Institute ici.org compiles statistics on mutual funds and publishes them monthly. There is a one month delay between the end of the month being reported and publication. Decision Point has been collecting the[...]
2. Payroll Tax Holiday and the Trust Funds, by Arnold Kling
   
   Fri Sep 3 15:10:47 2010
   Megan McArdle writes , Politically, this has one major drawback: its going to put huge holes in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Since I think those trust funds are meaningless accounting devices, I dont think this has any pract[...]
3. The 11 Hedge Fund Managers Most Likely To Retire Next BRK
   
   Fri Sep 3 09:38:00 2010
   Recent and major departures from the hedge fund kingdom - Stanley Druckenmiller, Paolo Pelligrini, Richard Grubman and Lou Simpson - signal a trend of investors a href="htt[...]
4. Technocratic Fundamentalism, by Arnold Kling
   
   Fri Sep 3 08:49:55 2010
   Barry Eichengreen writes , Those root causes were an ideology of market fundamentalism and the policies flowing from it. The idea that markets get it right and governments only get in the way, what I refer to here as market fundamentalism, is a[...]
5. Hedge Funds Have Been A Scam For The Past Twenty Years
   
   Fri Sep 3 07:55:07 2010
   Mostly now-illegal or dubious activities are how hedge funds have made almost all of their money in the past 20 years. In the mid to late 90s - investing in tech stocks is the only strategy that worked. So-called "sophisticated" funds [...]
6. BP Threatens To Cut Off Spill Fund Is Congress Blocks Offshore Permits BP
   
   Thu Sep 2 20:39:00 2010
   BP just revealed a very aggressive or desperate move. It has warned Congress not to block new offshore permits if they want BP to have enough money to keep paying claims, NYT reports. The 20 bill[...]
7. The trillion dollar gap in pension funds
   
   Thu Sep 2 12:44:47 2010
   Regardless of economic climate, government offices continue to pay pensions. But the Great Recession is making governments re-think future employee pensions and how to deal with the pensions theyre currently doling out. [...]
8. Richard RJ Eskow: The Robespierre of the Hedge-Fund Revolution
   
   Thu Sep 2 00:45:48 2010
   A hedge-fund managers " investor letter " -- really more of a staged, theatrical tantrum -- has been getting a lot of attention lately. Daniel S. Loebs diatribe demonstrates that banker greed is still out of control, and that its as shorts[...]
9. Hedge Fund Managers Secret Insider Trading Code: "Hows The Weather In Healthcare?"
   
   Wed Sep 1 16:33:30 2010
   A former hedge fund manager basically just bragged that he traded on inside information and doesnt mind paying the SEC a fraction of his profits on said alleged insider trade. His alleged guilt literally would not have been more ob[...]
10. Bank Profits Soar, Lending Falls As Banks Pay Next To Nothing For Funds
    
    Tue Aug 31 16:28:53 2010
    Bank profits jumped 21 percent last quarter to nearly 22 billion, the highest level in three years, as banks put away less money to cover future losses, fewer borrowers fell behind on payments and lenders paid the least for their funds in [...]

1. Financial Crisis Timeline