Frontrunning: April 16

• The 21st century bank run (FOFOA)
• Bailout #5: Athens makes formal request for talks with Brussels, ECB and IMF (FT)
• As Bailout #1 is brewing elsewhere: Debt worries shift to Portugal, spurred by rising bond rates (NYT)
• GE and Immelt Face SEC review after Paulson's account of talks (Bloomberg) even as the firm rides the steep yield curve to profitability (Bloomberg)
• General electrion 2010: Liberal Democrats surge after Nick Clegg's TV debate performance (Telegraph)
• LBO firms extract dividends as Blackstone sells (Bloomberg)
• Summers on demand: Pay people for not working, and more people will work! (WSJ)
• Institutionalizing Too Big To Fail (The American)
• More on Greek banks and deposit insurance (Cumberland)
• Greenspan's delusions (The Nation)
• Quadrangle to pay $12 million to settle pension investigation, disavows former corrupt auto Czar's conduct (FT)
• "Liquidity Puts" that cost Citi $14 billion may be curbed (Bloomberg)
• German commentarties on aid for Greece (Reuters)
• The key ingredient of market bubbles is cheap money (MSN)
• Never having to say you're sorry (Observer)
• The fire next time (Krugman)

Comments

[john_connor]

8:37a

BREAKING

GE expects $1.2 bln order from Iraq in 2Q

lmao.  Glad to see the nation building is going well.  Maybe there are job openings there.

[Internet Tough Guy]

Nice to see some FOFOA news.

[TomB]

Indeed.

[anynonmous]

Barry Ritholtz goes after Tyler by proxy using a post by fellow econoblogger Matt Trivisono.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/04/zero-edge/

[HarryWanger]

So did all the comments for the most part. ZH is getting a bad rep out in the blogosphere these days.

[glenlloyd]

It's nothing more than traditional tactics. Small dogs trying to make a name for themselves attack the big dog. We've seen this before and it usually goes nowhere.

[WaterWings]

It's hard to be upbeat when you have a socialist state fueled by fractional reserve banking running the show.

Ignorance is bliss. Obama 2012!

[sweet ebony diamond]

how come there is no expose about the Ratt?

he is a candidate for douchebag of the decade.

http://www.senseoncents.com/2010/04/steven-rattners-conduct-was-inapprop...

[Kina]

Stocks going red, the manipulators try take gold down, thanks guys down 1% makes it easier for me to jump in and buy more.

[MinnesotaNice]

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