October 2011
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“If you want to have a business in China today, if you want to build a building,...”
– GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, getting the facts wrong in her attempt to compare U.S. regulations to those in other countries. According to a 2008 World Bank report, China is one of the most difficult countries in which to obtain construction permits, notes the Los Angeles Times. (via...
Vanderbilt University nondiscrimination policy... →
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Millennial Generation challenges religion in... →
Really insightful stuff about the way my generation is changing the face of religious participation, organization, and identification.
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Charity Swearbox, a Twitter Swear Jar for a Good Cause
“A collection of dogsh!t … possibly the best short EVER!”
– How one experienced CDO trader characterized the portfolio of a Citigroup CDO called Class V Funding III, according to a SEC complaint. Citigroup agreed to pay $285 million this week to settle charges that it misled the CDO’s investors. (Find out why that settlement may have been a sweet deal for...
“I don’t like it, but there it is. … If they think it’s too complicated, they...”
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Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, commenting to the New York Times on how the proprietary trading ban he originally proposed to rein in banks’ risk-taking — once a simple 3-page letter to the president — has ballooned into 298 pages of complex regulations after Wall Street firms lobbied for many...
