Frontrunning: April 10

• Fed tells banks not to divulge results of "stress test" ahead of earnings (Bloomberg)[question: which exactly SEC regulation is being trampled by this directive?]
• Surprise, surprise: Goldman to seek multi-billion stock offering (WSJ) [how many more banks will offer equity ahead of earnings, and ahead of stress test results?]
• Game of credit cost smoke and mirrors at wells fargo (Housing Wire)
• It's do or die time for world's number 2 economy (Bloomberg)
• Paul Krugman: Making banking boring (NYT)
• The vanishing social security surplus (Angry Bear)
• Equity investors are whistling in the dark (The Economist)
• Is Arthur Sulzberger right for the Times (Vanity Fair)
• Corporate bonds as a directional predictor (WSJ, hat tip David)
• Socialism has failed, capitalism is bankrupt. What comes next? (Guardian)
• Charts: Japan as a model for the US and China (Nomura, hat tip David)