Weekend Reading

• Ben Bernanke's commencement speech at the Boston College School of Law (FRB)
• Obushma-Biney in the home of the frightened (FT)
• Geithner picking the best (for Wall Street) of all derivative worlds (Bloomberg)
• S&P: Britain will be the next stage of the global crisis (Telegraph)
• What are payrolls telling us about the equity market? (Financial Sense Observations, hat tip Ubu)
• More on Europe: The really ugly truth on European banks (HY Blog)
• Steve Liesman's favorite portal (Recessionblocker)
• Dollar is dirt, treasuries are toast, AAA is gone (Bloomberg)
• The importance of irrelevant alternatives (Economist)
• Why Peter Schiff's bookings are down 75-85% (Time)
• GM has two more days of life (Sunday Express)
• Some pretty ideas here, most lacking a few extra zeroes (Dollar Redesign Project)
• Libya sees 50% chance OPEC to cut oil output at Vienna Meeting (Bloomberg)
• David Rosenberg's most recent interview (Bloomberg)
• Great depressions are so methodical (Institutional Advisors, h/t Ubu)
• The new, new economy (Wired)

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