Frontrunning: February 8

• No job growth for small business spurs recovery doubt (Bloomberg)
• S&P plunge fails to shake Gabelli on technology (Bloomberg)
• El-Erian favors Brazil bonds, Chinese Yuan. Whatever happened to Bunds? (Bloomberg)
• Is the market priced for perfection? (NYT)
• America's #1 creditor holds the ultimate weapon (Post)
• Conan's Majestic duplex on West 72nd Street on the block for $35 million (Post)
• Toyota: Ford v2 (Bloomberg)
• Testy conflict with Goldman helped push AIG to the edge (NYT)
• What I learned from Paulson's book (WSJ)
• Reining in the front riders (Morgan Stanley)

Comments

[Thoreau]

"Is the market priced for perfection?" More like the second coming.

[ratava]

America's #1 creditor holds the ultimate weapon (Post)

link is busted

[DaveyJones]

try this

  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/china_debt_bomb_onc23nzJdiQR7gTLkrwSpL

[Anonymous]

Interest article also on Bloomberg:

Weak Dollar Illusory as Correlated Trade Shows Gains

"For all the concern over the $1.6 trillion U.S. budget deficit and record debt load, the dollar is as valuable now as 35 years ago."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVbhDaStbA1Q&pos=2

[Anonymous]

Where is Marla?

[Paul S.]

Where is Marla?

[JohnXXX]

+1000

Inquiring minds want to know. Has she been offered an executive position at Goldman's and crossed over to the dark side?

We need to know, Tyler.

[Zro]

Even the Mortgage Bankers Association is resorting to jingle-mail

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870482970457504911142891289...

[Anonymous]

Everyone misses Marla. She's such a hottie.

However, we can all suspect she's proofreading Tyler's dispositions and augmenting his language skills occasionally.

-MobBarley