Frontrunning: January 25

• Samuelson: China's $2.4 trillion global grip (RCM)
• Game over Tishman Speyer: look for CRE CMBS numbers to plunge next month (Bloomberg, WSJ)
• More Bernanke-fail threats for the peasantry: fire and brimstone, Geithner edition (Politico)
• Obama's bank plan could level high-frequency field (Reuters)
• UBS tax ruling by Swiss court may prompt new U.S. legal battle (Bloomberg)
• Goldman to cap London partners' compensation at 1 million pounds (Bloomberg)
• FTW: Krugman "I favor Bernanke's reappointment" (NYT)
• FTW²: Salmon's musings on Krugman as Fed chairman (Reuters)
• Expectation for decline in existing home sales: conensus -9/8% (Goldman -15%)
• For our German-speaking readers: Ben Bernanke - Mr. Inflation (Focus, h/t Oisin)
• Goldman's Jim O'Neill, Man U fan, slams club's bond issuance (Bloomberg)
• AIG restricts use of corporate aircraft (Reuters)
• Fleckenstein: Why bankers haven't earned bonuses (MSN)
• The president's bank reforms don't add up (WSJ)
• The Fed's raging conflicts of interest (Jr Deputy Accountant)
• A note from inside (Mankiw Blog, h/t Niall)
• Suicides inside France Telecom prompting Sarkozy stress testing (Bloomberg)

Comments

[spanish inquisition]

Well, the little shake up last week showed the power of the FED. Maybe got a few more congressman in line. Once the reconfirm numbers are in line, we need to get ready for the Bernanke bounce. The "good job for reconfirming me and I will now restore the market rally."

[omi]

TD, care to speculate if MPAA (Motorcar parts of America) had some insider trading going back to JAN 11?

[Oso]

Krugman has his job solely because of Bernanke.  He should NOT be commenting on his reappointment - Krugman himself is nothing more than a clueless academic, commenting on his clueless academoronic former mentor.  F him.

Also, for all those who continue to believe there are no correlations between dollar and everything else (including gold), take a look AGAIN today.  Risk assets up, gold up.

"Dollar Bear-Market End Is ‘Pretty Close,’ Pimco Says"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adic73VFV3pE&pos=5

[DaveyJones]

Haitian Oil Reserves

http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2009/10/13/oil_in_haiti_-_economic_reasons_for_the_unus_occupation

[Anonymous]

Geithner recommending Bernanke is like Jeffrey Dahmer recommending John Wayne Gacy as your child's babysitter.

[wang]

Mankiw and his ilk remind me of the retired Generals and Pentagon officials that were positioned as "expert contributors" (some cynics said plants) on the television networks e.g. CNN  as the Bush administration was building a case for Iraq. Of course these "experts" were politically neutral as they provided objective insight into the obvious existence of WMDs.