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Tom Lindmark submits:Brad Schaeffer, a conservative energy company executive, makes perhaps the most reasonable defense of TARP that I have seen. He compares the banking crisis to the fall of... See More

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Zacks.com submits: This week, MasterCard Inc. (MA) entered into a new three-year credit facility worth $2.75 billion, thus replacing a prior $2.0 billion credit facility that was supposed to... See More

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Madhusudan Rao submits: It comes as no surprise to me that Warren Buffett sent a Thank You note on November 16th to Uncle Sam. Unfortunately, his “Thank You” note seems to indicate... See More

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Zacks.com submits: Janus Capital Group Inc. (JNS) has hogged the headlines for the wrong reason. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company has revealed... See More

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Alacra Pulse Check Blog submits: by Angus RobertsonThe number of US banks on the FDIC’s Problem Banks list has grown to from 829 to 860, a fact reflected in recent analyst activity.... See More

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Zacks.com submits: The number of banks on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) list of problem institutions in the third quarter grew to 860 from 829 in the previous... See More

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The mutual fund business does not currently appear to be the focus of the government's investigation into insider trading, but that doesn't mean the $10 trillion industry... See More

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John M. Mason submits: The number of problem banks, as listed by the FDIC, continued to rise in the third quarter of 2010. The number went from 829 at the end of the second quarter to 860 in... See More

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GC Mays submits: The National Association of Realtors reported today that sales of existing homes slumped in October after rising in consecutive months. Existing home sales declined by 2.2% to a... See More

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Brad Case submits:The Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI) for September, released on 11/22, showed the largest monthly gain in the history of the index (back to January... See More

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Karl Denninger submits: Now we're starting to get into some interesting parts of the legal world, as the FDIC and J.P. Morgan (JPM) are pointing fingers at each other for WaMu's failure. As The... See More

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Arjun Rudra submits:Today we are continuing on with Part 2 of our interview with Bruce Campbell of Campbell & Lee Investment Management. With the financial sector making up 28.95% of the... See More

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Ian Wyatt submits: The Bank of Ireland (IRE) is about to have a new majority shareholder. Ireland's government is expected to raise its stake in the Bank of Ireland from 36% to something... See More

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Sudden Debt submits: With Ireland in political turmoil over its application to receive bailout funds, it is becoming obvious that we are getting caught between a rock and a hard place. On one... See More

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Edward Harrison submits:Dan Alpert, managing partner at Westwood Capital, thinks that banks are under-reserving and that this will come back to haunt them when house prices fall in "the... See More

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Felix Salmon submits: Does the Ireland crisis bespeak a major weakness in the Basel capital-adequacy regime? Simon Nixon thinks so: the fact that investors won’t lend to Bank of Ireland,... See More

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Michael Kass, portfolio manager for the Baron International Growth Fund, names his top international stocks for 2011 including Standard Chartered and Syngenta. See More

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Modeled Behavior submits: In the comments to a post by Tyler Cowen, George Selgin describes the use of, and potential for, free banking from a gradualist perspective: The debate about whether the... See More

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David Merkel submits: The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008 is a great book for those that love economic history, as I do. It describes the fortunes of the Lehman... See More

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Nicholas Marshi submits:Fifth Street Finance (FSC) released its latest newsletter yesterday. It was relatively brief but there were a few interesting points made. Given that FSC is not... See More

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Douglas Estadt submits: Regions Financial Corporation (RF), a company that offers an array of banking services in the South, was recently downgraded by ratings agencies, Fitch and S&P. While... See More

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Richard Field submits:The future of finance is the elimination of opacity throughout the financial system by using 21st century information technology. This statement is the logical conclusion of... See More

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Annaly Salvos submits: The title of this piece is strange but true. The FDIC released its Quarterly Banking Profile for the 3rd quarter of 2010 yesterday morning, trumpeting $14.5 billion in... See More

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BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Investors may regard Wal-Mart and Target as the best Black Friday stock picks, but fund managers say International Speedway and Microsoft are among sale items to buy.Black... See More

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -The European sovereign debt crisis has once again taken center stage as Ireland becomes to second member of the Euro bloc to seek aid from the European Union and the... See More

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