Frontrunning: March 27

• Must read: The silent coup d'etat by the finance industry (Simon Johnson, former IMF, The Altantic)
• So now he loves them? Obama seeks support from JPM, GS, Citi on bank plan (Bloomberg)
• ...and: Obama back banks, seeks to block fair-lending probe (Bloomberg)
• Top risk officers remain at AIG (WSJ)
• Krugman: The market mystique (NYT)
• Henderson: Did Fed cause housing bubble (WSJ)
• Buiter: Moral hazard lite and strong (FT)
• Smith: Deconstructing the senile former Fed chairman (Naked Capitalism)
• Greenwald: comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina (Salon)
• China stock optimism overdone according to Morgan Stanley (Bloomberg)
• Tension builds at Nomura over Lehman bonuses (Reuters)
• How will cities in 2100 look (McKinsey)